MagaSwaga Potent Notables

Notable: Mexican, U.S. business leaders cry salty tears over Trump border closure threats

Mexican, U.S. business leaders unite to rebuke 'disastrous' Trump border closure threats

MERIDA, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexican and U.S. business leaders on Friday pushed back against President Donald Trump’s threats to close the U.S.-Mexico border and urged him to drop steel tariffs that have hindered the ratification of a trade deal brokered last year.

At a meeting in the eastern Mexican city of Merida attended by government officials from both countries, business lobbies united to call on Trump to drop his threats to disrupt border trade after days of hold-ups on the frontier.

Describing the U.S.-Mexico relationship as a top priority, U.S. Chamber of Commerce head Tom Donohue told a news conference the United States should exempt Mexico and Canada from steel and aluminum tariffs imposed by Trump last June before its Congress approves the deal struck to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement.

“That is why we are the first out of the gate to warn against the disastrous consequences of closing the U.S.-Mexican border,” Donohue said, sitting next to Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who warmly applauded his speech.

Mexico is the United States’ second biggest export market, and third biggest trading partner. U.S.-Mexico trade is worth about half a trillion dollars a year.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-usa-business-energy/mexican-u-s-business-leaders-unite-to-rebuke-disastrous-trump-border-closure-threats-idUSKCN1RO228?feedType=RSS&feedName=businessNews

Notable: 70+ MPs sign letter, attempt to get JA sent to Sweden to face "justice" re rape charge

More than 70 MPs have signed a letter urging the home secretary to ensure Julian Assange faces authorities in Sweden if they request his extradition.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47917325

https://twitter.com/stellacreasy/status/1116791087585091584

It's an awful lot of Baronesses up against him in this on the twitter letter list huh?

Notable: Missing T tweet vs Missing T Q

>>6159336 pb DJT Tweet Missing T

Q post 3109 ~ 'SRIKE' will be FAST indicating @Jack target

Looks like @POTUS is telling us IT'S ON ~ STRIKE, I MEAN!

WRWY!

Notable: Watch: @USArmy paratroopers conduct an airborne operation exercise in Slovenia

#USArmy paratroopers assigned to @173rdAbnBde conduct an airborne operation and provide suppressive fire during exercise Eagle Sokol at Cerklje Drop Zone in Slovenia.

#ArmyLife

twitter.com/USArmy/status/1116915295942258689

Notable: Clintons sit next to a fern and flap their gums in Detroit

The Clintons dish on White House, Wikileaks and TV binges in Detroit

http://www.fox2detroit.com/news/local-news/the-clintons-dish-on-white-house-wikileaks-and-tv-binges-in-detroit

Notable: Axois deleted tweet archived

Axios deleted tweet.

http://archive.is/lI61R

Notable: 58 Suspects in child sex sting dig (Geller Report)

Some additional good reading on the sting at the link.

https://gellerreport.com/2019/04/child-sex-trafficking-ring.html/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Notable: Israeli jets struck a military base near Masyaf in Syria's Hama Province

At Least 3 Injured as Israeli Jets Hit Masyaf in Syria's Hama Province - Reports

Explosions were heard Saturday in the countryside near the Syrian city of Hama, Reuters reported, citing local media.

Syria's air defences intercepted missiles in the city of Masyaf, near Hama, Syria's state television said, as cited by Reuters. Local netizens posted alleged footage of the interception on social media.

https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201904131074091823-explosions-head-countryside-syria-hama/

Notable: DJT: In New York State, D's blocked a bill expanding College Tuition for families…

DJT

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1116911640568573952

Notable: >>6159122, >>6159211 Healthy dose of autism applied to NSA Q of Clubs tweet

>>6159122

that upper left corner doesn't look right at all, people are different sizes and it's throwing me off

Notable: DJT Tweet Missing T

Missing T

twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1116907128445394944

Notable: Huawei wikileaks doc from 2004

Old or not, this is topical.

https://file.wikileaks.org/file/support-letter-to-huawei-from-cdb-2004.png

Notable: >>6159288 DJT: Another Fake Story on @NBCNews that I offered Pardons…

DJT

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1116907128445394944

Notable: >>6159303 Mt Vernon Politico Fake News Dig

OK, Anons check this out.

The story that Mt. Vernon is debunking relates to Trump supposedly making a bunch of ridiculous claims on a Mt Vernon visit last year.

Post from Wednesday:

>>6126527 (pb)

There were actually two related stories, and I suspect they were a WH SETUP…. to bring FAKE NEWS about the MACRON VISIT LAST YEAR into the spotlight.

WHY?

Because the "Let's Roll!" meme with the pic of Michael Anton cooking at the State Dinner for France on THAT VISIT visit has been highly marked as the GO signal for the Q army. (And part of the meaning of that is about trolling the fake news…)

Note how the tweet also says "Thank you Mt Vernon"

As is happens, ALSO on Wednesday, DJT tweeted a "Thank you Texas" video.

This post on that is linked from that same Mt Vernon "fake news" post:

>>6126088 (pb)

Basically, I suggested that the "Thank you Texas" vid was mirroring the "Thank you Asia" vid that had a "Q" "red carpet rollout". This term is ALSO linked to the state dinner for France in the drops from 24 April 2018. Also, there seemed to be NO other tweets since Q started that thank a geographical region, but now we've got the Mt Vernon one.

Series of links from tweet…

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1116898703682543616

https://twitter.com/mVespa1/status/1116145996743024646

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2019/04/10/busted-mount-vernon-debunks-politicos-fake-news-story-about-trumps-visit-to-wa-n2544609

Notable: Country singer arrested over fake real estate deal

Local country singer arrested over fake real estate deal

https://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/news/local/crime/article229172909.html

Notable: Scalia re: independent counsel statute, "But this wolf comes as a wolf."

Scalia with regard to independent special counsel, "…But this wolf comes as a wolf"'''

From 1989 Whistleblower memo written by William Barr

https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/olc/opinions/1989/07/31/op-olc-v013-p0207_0.pdf

Notable: DJT: A Fake Story by Politico. TY Mount Vernon!

>>6158830

DJT

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1116898703682543616

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2019/04/10/busted-mount-vernon-debunks-politicos-fake-news-story-about-trumps-visit-to-wa-n2544609

Notable: >>6158742 DJT retweet: How is [Ilhan Omar] walking the halls of Congress

New Retweet

https://twitter.com/politicalelle/status/1116757289245872128

Notable: Choe Son Hui promoted to first vice foreign minister in NK (NKNews.org)

https://www.nknews.org/2019/04/choe-son-hui-promoted-to-first-vice-foreign-minister-state-media-confirms/

Notable: Kim Jong Un said that he will wait “until end of year” for US to be more flexible (Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-usa/north-koreas-kim-jong-un-gives-u-s-to-year-end-to-become-more-flexible-idUSKCN1RO2PI

Notable: DJT: Finally, great news at the Border!

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1116894304063107072

POTUS TWAT

Notable: >>6158618, >>6158634 DJT tweet 3 Min Delta added Comma

Same tweet 3 min Delta

Notable: DJT: "Thank you Jeh, so well stated!"

New DJT

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1116892526533857280

https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1116712395844587521

Notable: U.S. slaps sanctions on four shipping firms, nine ships, carrying oil from Venezuela

U.S. slaps sanctions on four shipping firms, nine ships, carrying oil from Venezuela

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Friday announced more sanctions on shipping companies transporting oil from Venezuela, blacklisting four shipping companies and nine vessels, some of which the U.S. Treasury Department said carried oil to Cuba. The U.S. Treasury identified the firms as Liberia-based Jennifer Navigation Ltd, Lima Shipping Corp and Large Range Ltd, and Italy-based PB Tankers S.P.A. It blacklisted one tanker belonging to each of the Liberian firms and six owned by the Italian firm.

A Treasury statement said Venezuela’s oil sector continued “to provide a lifeline to the illegitimate regime” of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. “We continue to target companies that transport Venezuelan oil to Cuba, as they are profiting while the Maduro regime pillages natural resources,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in the statement. “Venezuela’s oil belongs to the Venezuelan people, and should not be used as a bargaining tool to prop up dictators and prolong oppression,” he said. The sanctions prohibit dealings with the firms by U.S. citizens and block the companies’ financial interests in the United States.

A week ago, the U.S. Treasury imposed sanctions on 34 vessels owned or operated by Venezuelan state-run oil company Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A, or PDVSA, and also on two companies and a vessel that delivered oil to Cuba in February and March. PDVSA nevertheless shipped 1 million barrels of oil to Cuba after the last round of sanctions, according to a PDVSA document and tanker tracking data. Last week’s sanctions came on top of a previous round in January targeting PDVSA itself.

The United States and most Western nations have recognized opposition leader Juan Guaido as the rightful president of Venezuela. Guaido invoked the Venezuelan constitution to assume an interim presidency in January, arguing that Maduro’s 2018 re-election was illegitimate. Maduro argues Guaido is a puppet of the United States attempting to oust him in a coup. Venezuela’s Foreign minister Jorge Arreaza this week said the OPEC-member nation plans to “fulfill its commitments” to Cuba.

Venezuela has long sent subsidized crude to Cuba. The United States describes the arrangement as an “oil-for-repression” scheme in which Havana helps socialist Maduro weather an economic crisis and the power struggle with the opposition in exchange for fuel. Cuba has said it will never abandon its ally even as U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration threatened more sanctions.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-usa/u-s-slaps-sanctions-on-four-shipping-firms-nine-ships-carrying-oil-from-venezuela-idUSKCN1RO29D

Notable: DJT: If the Radical Left Ds suddenly don't want Illegals, then why…

DJT Tweet

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1116891452003557376

Notable: SoftBank bends the knee to U.S. govt

SoftBank picking its battles with U.S.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) — SoftBank Group Corp. has agreed to give up board seats and access to sensitive information, take a more passive role in startups and make other concessions to get government clearance for its technology deals, as the Japanese investor confronts a new U.S. law aimed at cracking down on foreign investors.

SoftBank’s investment style has made it a frequent visitor of a U.S. government group known as the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), charged with reviewing foreign investment for national security and competitive risks.

“We know the deals are going to be reviewed,” Marcelo Claure, chief operating officer of SoftBank Group Corp, said in an interview with Reuters this week. “We have abided by what the U.S. government wants.”

SoftBank likes to take large stakes in companies working on artificial intelligence, data analytics, financial services and self-driving cars — technologies increasingly viewed as critical to national security. This puts them in the crosshairs of a law signed by U.S. President Donald Trump last year expanding the powers of CFIUS.

Giving up board seats and access to private information would make SoftBank less of a threat in the eyes of CFIUS, giving its deals a better chance of approval.

“We would not accept this if we were in the business of running companies,” Claure said of the concessions. “We’re not. We are in the business of investing.”

Claure declined to provide specifics on investments where SoftBank has had to make concessions or give up board seats, and the U.S. government does not comment on CFIUS reviews.

The regulations have deterred many foreign investors from even attempting investment in U.S. tech companies.

“Everything is a conversation with the government so you figure you are going to pick your battles,” Claure said.

http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0005670942

Notable: AOC trying to suggest Trump is holocausting Ilhan Omar

AOC is seriously trying to suggest that Trump is trying to carry out a Holocaust

twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1116850103011037184

She even tagged the Holocaust Museum

twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1116851406340628480

twitter.com/AOC/status/1116848329776934912

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Notable: 9th Circuit upholds POTUS's asylum-seeker policy

https://www.law.com/therecorder/2019/04/12/ninth-circuit-issues-stay-on-ruling-blocking-trumps-policy-to-force-asylum-seekers-to-wait-in-mexico/?slreturn=20190312215826

Send em back

Notable: >>6158235 @NSAGov [Q]ueen of Clubs tweet, 4/12/19 digits add up to 17

https://twitter.com/Mamadidntraise/status/1116884983619022848

Notable: >>6158103 GE Agrees to Pay $1.5 Billion to resolve claims involving subprime residential mortgage loans

General Electric Agrees to Pay $1.5 Billion Penalty for Alleged Misrepresentations Concerning Subprime Loans Included in Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities

The Department of Justice today announced that General Electric (GE) will pay a civil penalty of $1.5 billion under the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 (FIRREA) to resolve claims involving subprime residential mortgage loans originated by WMC Mortgage (WMC), a GE subsidiary. WMC, GE, and their affiliates allegedly misrepresented the quality of WMC’s loans and the extent of WMC’s internal quality and fraud controls in connection with the marketing and sale of residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS). FIRREA authorizes the federal government to seek civil penalties for violations of various predicate criminal offenses, including wire and mail fraud where the violation affects a federally insured financial institution.

“The financial system counts on originators, which are in the best position to know the true condition of their mortgage loans, to make accurate and complete representations about their products. The failure to disclose material deficiencies in those loans contributed to the financial crisis,” said Assistant Attorney General Jody Hunt. “As today’s resolution demonstrates, the Department of Justice will continue to employ FIRREA as a powerful tool for protecting our financial markets against fraud.”

‘’’General Electric Capital Corporation (GECC), then the financial services unit of GE, acquired WMC, a subprime residential mortgage loan originator, in 2004. WMC originated more than $65 billion dollars in mortgage loans between 2005 and 2007. WMC sold the vast majority of its loans to investment banks, which, in turn, issued and sold RMBS backed by WMC loans to investors.’’’ The United States alleged that a majority of the mortgage loans WMC originated and sold for inclusion in RMBS in 2005-2007 did not comply with WMC’s representations about the loans, and that certain of WMC’s representations were reviewed by, approved by, or made with the knowledge of personnel from GE or GECC. Investors, including federally insured financial institutions, suffered billions of dollars in losses as a result of WMC’s fraudulent origination and sale of loans for inclusion in RMBS.

‘’’In particular, the United States alleged that in 2005-2007, WMC attempted to increase its profits and meet profit goals by increasing originations.’’’ WMC loan analysts responsible for underwriting mortgage loans were encouraged to approve loans in order to meet volume targets, even where the loan applications did not meet the criteria outlined in WMC’s published underwriting guidelines, and received additional compensation based on the number of mortgages they approved. At the same time, there were significant deficiencies with respect to WMC’s quality control, which was viewed by some as an impediment to volume. In 2005, a WMC quality control manager described his department as a “toothless tiger” with inadequate resources and no authority to prevent the approval or sale of loans his department had determined were fraudulent or otherwise defective. By late third quarter 2006, managers responsible for quality control and risk management at WMC and GECC had expressed concerns that WMC’s quality and fraud controls were so lax that WMC received more mortgage applications containing fraud or other defects than its competitors. As a member of GE’s Corporate Audit Staff (CAS) involved in audits of WMC observed in April 2007, WMC “jacked up volume without controls.”

Notable: Square Inc (SQ) President, CEO & Chairman Jack Dorsey Sold $5.1 million of Shares

Square Inc (SQ) President, CEO & Chairman Jack Dorsey Sold $5.1 million of Shares

https://www.gurufocus.com/news/852931/square-inc-sq-president-ceo–chairman-jack-dorsey-sold-51-million-of-shares

Notable: Shootout with human trafficking suspects send 4 ICE agents to hospital in Phoenix

https://twitter.com/LisaMei62/status/1116879886524796928

Notable: Robert Kraft doesn't want sex tape released, says "Invades privacy"

https://www.breitbart.com/news/lawyer-video-of-sex-act-invades-robert-krafts-privacy/

we know they recorded many

what if Q team is using this against them?

Notable: Former RI lawmaker sentenced in bank fraud case

State-level government criminals in the crosshairs? Let's hope! RI needs to be rescued, and fast.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) – A former Rhode Island senator will spend two years behind bars in what prosecutors called a staggering and elaborate case of bank fraud.

In 2018, James Doyle pleaded guilty to swindling three banks out of nearly half a million dollars through a check scheme that lasted from 2013 to 2016—while he was serving as a state senator.

On Friday, Doyle's lawyers asked for home confinement, but the judge believed the crime deserved prison time, sentencing the 46-year-old to two years.

Doyle took a moment during the sentencing to apologize to those affected by the scheme. "You can't blame anybody but yourself when these situations occur,” said Doyle. “I let a lot of people down."

On top of spending two years behind bars, Doyle was sentenced to 3 years supervised released.

He must also pay $426,000 in restitution back to those banks.

Doyle said in court Friday that he accepts the ruling and is ready to serve his time and move on with his life.

"Believe it or not, I know it's tough, but I am at peace today,” Doyle said.

Doyle will self-surrender to begin his term April 30th.

©WLNE-TV / ABC6 2019

http://www.abc6.com/story/40300779/former-ri-lawmaker-sentenced-in-bank-fraud-fraud-case?fbclid=IwAR1AOqzCSqYFw9mZaHOuyWoFqsYK_u2pjPOUcvhR_JN7ywuAEphsiwr-KVM

Notable: @TomFitton: DJT Vindicated and HRC Implicated! #SpyGate

https://twitter.com/TomFitton/status/1116876726460657664

Notable: >>6157921 Hate Hoaxer Jussie Smollett chilling in Hawaii?

From the looks of things the “Empire” star is on vacay with his family. Photogs caught him laughing it up and catching some rays in paradise. And he was even snapped boogie boarding!

Hilarious Race Baitor Jussie Smollett Hawaiian Getaway

Notable: Dem Town Halls on CNN low ratings crushed by Fox and MSNBC

Fake news is losing viewers.

https://twitter.com/EpochTimes/status/1116871125731020800

Notable: >>6157790, >>6157875 Transcripts from Rep Doug Collins, full PDFs

Anons

All Transcripts released by rep Doug Collins

here's the link in caes you don't trust these pdfs

https://dougcollins.house.gov/search/node/Interview%20of%3A

Notable: Hannity weighs in on Ilhan Omar's "New Low"

https://twitter.com/seanhannity/status/1116868679587770368

Notable: Brazil’s Bolsonaro says Holocaust can be forgiven, mustn’t be forgotten (sputnik)

Brazil’s Bolsonaro Says Holocaust Can Be Forgiven, Mustn’t Be Forgotten

The Brazilian president is a strong supporter of Israel and is said to have good relations with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro said Thursday that he believes the crimes of the Holocaust can be forgiven, but measures must be taken so that such a thing never happens again.

"We can forgive, but we cannot forget. That quote is mine. Those that forget their past are sentenced not to have a future," he said, speaking at a meeting with evangelical pastors in Rio de Janeiro, according to The Times of Israel.

He added that actions are needed to make sure the Holocaust will never be repeated, to the applause of the audience, the report says.

The recently elected right-wing Brazilian president is believed to be a staunch Israel supporter, having good relations with the right-wing Netanyahu.

Earlier in April, Bolsonaro, alongside Netanyahu, visited the Holocaust memorial in Israel. During his visit to the country, Bolsonaro and Netanyahu signed a number of agreements, including papers on defence, cybersecurity and police cooperation. Bolsonaro also announced his decision to open a trade office in Jerusalem. Earlier in January, he vowed to move Brasilia's embassy to the city; however, the latter move appears to be on hold, according to the Times report.

During the reign of the Nazi Party in Germany, some 6 million Jews were killed in a genocide known as the Holocaust, as well as some 7 million Soviet civilians, 2 million ethnic Poles and a large number of victims from other groups, including gay and disabled people.

https://sputniknews.com/world/201904131074092606-jair-bolsonaro-holocaust-forgiven/

Notable: >>6157522 Brennan's Career of Treachery (russia-insider)

The Untold Facts of John Brennan's Career of Treachery

Brennan's fingerprints are all over the RussiaHoax. Expect major attacks like this one against 'Mr. Deep State' himself, the man who epitomizes the out-of-control US security state.

Let’s get something clear from the start. In 1976, in his 20s, John Brennan was a card carrying communist who supported the then Soviet Union, at the height some might say of the Cold War, so much so he voted and assisted Gus Hall, the communist candidate for President against a devout Christian, Jimmy Carter who ultimately won the Presidency.

Yet under four years later, just after the then Soviet Union invaded, just weeks before, Afghanistan and months after the tumultuous Iranian revolution of 1979, which at the time many thought the Soviet Union had a hand in, Brennan was accepted into the CIA as a junior analyst.

https://russia-insider.com/en/untold-facts-john-brennans-career-treachery/ri26740

1/2

Notable: Papa D recounts DIA officials probing questions, Alexander Downer spying

https://twitter.com/GeorgePapa19/status/1116867463243653120

Notable: Updated DOD Transgender Policy Based on Treating All With Dignity

Updated Transgender Policy Based on Treating All With Dignity

https://dod.defense.gov/News/Article/Article/1813248/dod-official-updated-transgender-policy-based-on-treating-all-with-dignity/

Notable: >>6157596 Clockfag update, clocks from past week

Clocks from the past week. Just the final versions.

JA and SR. On the clock.

Sudan on the clock.

Barr on the clock.

Dark to Light.

Notable: >>6157536 Anons muse on Sanctuary City illegals 4d Chess trap

It's a classic Catch 22 for the Dem's.

They designated the sanctuary cities for just this reason. They're illegal cities but they claim they're legal and they should have no beef taking in all the illegals, right?

Lib idiots.

They've been backed into a corner by Trump.

They either accept them or they expose the scam the sanctuary cities are.

(((☆Brilliant☆)))

Notable: Feinstein (D-Beijing): Give up your guns because muh NZ

Feinstein still pushing New Zealand as a reason to infringe on our 2nd Amendment

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

Notable: Sundance Film Festival co-founder faces child sex abuse charge

Sundance co-founder faces child sex abuse charge

https://www.abc4.com/news/local-news/sundance-co-founder-faces-child-sex-abuse-charge/1915500641

Notable: Russia slams British claims that London worked to stabilize Libya.

“Beautiful In Every Way Imaginable”: Russia Slams British Claims That London Worked To Stabilize Libya

During a April 11 press briefing Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mariya Zakharova made detailed remarks regarding the current situation in Libya and British calims that London has worked to stabelize the country (source):

Confessions of British Foreign Office minister on Libya

Speaking about Libya and the roots of today’s extremely difficult situation, I couldn’t help but see what I consider as an outstanding statement in every way recently made by Mark Field, a UK Foreign Office minister who temporarily oversees the Middle East dossier. During the debate in the House of Commons, he agreed with the arguments of his Labour opponents about the “calamitous” consequences of the British invasion of Iraq and Libya and said the following: “Although the UK played a role in trying to ensure that there was further planning for a Libyan-owned, UN co-ordinated stabilisation effort, that did not come to pass in the way we would have liked. There were clear early successes in the immediate aftermath of 2011 that were not sustained. ”

This statement is beautiful in every way imaginable. It turns out that the introduction of a no-fly zone, coupled with pinpoint bombardments, including on facilities critical to the state infrastructure, is now modestly called “a role in stabilisation effort.” The “effort” apparently implies unceremonious interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign state, overt support of an anti-government coup and, naturally, public lynching and mockery on the body of a national leader who was only recently accepted by those who later shamelessly gave orders and actually sentenced Muammar Gaddafi to death. Speaking about the scenario they would have liked, obviously, that was a reference to a transformation of Libya, which is extremely rich in natural resources, into a hydrocarbons supplier fully controlled by the West with a puppet government “recognized democratic” in words. Apparently, this was the scenario the West would have liked to see implemented, only something went wrong.

Frankly speaking, what is happening now, including around Venezuela is of course completely different; yet the methods used are very similar to the drama that unfolded in Libya: attempts to convince everyone of the need for democratisation, a concentration on the country’s blunders, including economic ones within implementation of its internal policy, using a whole range of pressure tools and interference in the internal affairs of sovereign Libya, relying on those welcome and sanctions against the unwanted. That came unexpected for most countries. The world is watching in amazement what is happening in that country. The question is, is this another blunder? But one has to answer for their blunders.

The problem is that the people who wrote these scenarios, including for Libya, turned out to be mediocre. Apologies have not been uncommon in the British political culture lately. In fact they are made quite often because there is no real remorse behind them. Remember, Gordon Brown apologised for the shameful migrant policy that sent many destitute and orphaned Britons to the colonies for several decades in the 20th century. They apologised for the slavery in the past. Modern UK politicians have also repeatedly apologised. Remember Iraq? Now it’s Libya’s turn, only they didn’t apologise, but said they failed to ensure it goes according to the scenario planned for that country. How many more places on our planet will be forced into these dramatic scenarios with non-dramatic apologies afterwards?

Only faced with an acute socioeconomic crisis, primarily caused by the uncontrolled flow of migration, our Western colleagues began to look for ways to evade any threats or complaints.

One must keep in mind that all those who drafted the scenario for Libya – the politicians, experts, representatives of the executive power of Western states – feel fine, and are as rich and prosperous as ever. But millions of direct and indirect victims of those decision-makers are paying the price for their mistakes, paying their own lives and the lives of their families and friends.

https://southfront.org/beautiful-in-every-way-imaginable-russia-slams-british-claims-that-london-worked-to-stabilize-libya/

http://www.mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/-/asset_publisher/cKNonkJE02Bw/content/id/3612738

Notable: Human trafficking awareness raised for the Masters.

>>6156358

higolffag reporting from Augusta.

https://www.wjbf.com/news/csra-news/human-trafficking-awareness-raised-for-the-masters/1905737995

Notable: Maggie Tweets about POTUS' praise of his daughter Ivanka.

Inside Ivanka’s Dreamworld

The “first daughter” spent years rigorously cultivating her image. But she wasn’t prepared for scrutiny.

https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1116841280112402439

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/04/ivanka-trump-job-white-house/586972/

Notable: US Marines: "Blazin' Hot"

Blazin' Hot

twitter.com/USMC/status/1116853504772071424

Notable: Attorney requests WH security clearance applications of Obama era-senior advisors.

Attorney Requests WH Security Clearance Applications Of Obama Era-Senior Advisors

WASHINGTON, D.C. — An attorney representing a White House civil servant being scrutinized by the House Oversight Committee wants the security clearance applications of senior Obama White House staff including Valerie Jarrett, Jay Carney and Ben Rhodes. The White House security application of National Action Network President Al Sharpton was also requested.

House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Jim Jordan and Ranking Member of the Government Operations Subcommittee Mark Meadows sent a letter Friday to Committee Chair Elijah Cummings to redirect his security clearance process investigation to the previous administration. According to Jordan and Meadows, Rhodes — a former senior national security and foreign policy advisor for the Obama administration — received a high-level security clearance “despite a questionable background investigation that may have led the [FBI] to deny him an interim clearance.” The Republican Congressmen wrote: Mr. Driscoll’s request to you is an opportunity to prove that you are not using the Committee to target the President or his senior advisors. We understand that senior officials in the previous administration may have had problems with regard to their security clearance applications. According to public reports, Ben Rhodes, a former senior national security and foreign policy advisor in the previous administration, obtained a high-level clearance despite a questionable background investigation that may have led the Federal Bureau of Investigation to deny him an interim clearance. Similar troublesome issues also may have plagued the clearance process for former senior advisor Valerie Jarrett, among others.

Cummings launched an Oversight investigation into the security clearance process of the current administration early this month, saying Tricia Newbold, a manager in the Personnel Security Office of the White House told the committee the Trump administration abused the security clearance process. As a result, she questioned 25 Trump White House employees who each received a security clearance, one of whom was Trump’s son-in-law and a top White House adviser, Jared Kushner, as The Washington Post reported. Newbold claimed Carl Kline, who was White House personnel security director during the first two years of the Trump administration, issued these clearances despite her concerns. “[The Trump White House is] going to basically say that we have no business looking at security clearances and then they’ll say that the president has complete authority to do that. And I agree he has complete authority to issue clearances to whoever he wants,” Cummings told reporters in early April. “The problem is that the process has been severely violated when you have people who—a couple of your employees say should not be getting these clearances. In some instances, because of criminal activity,” he added.

In a letter to Cummings and the Committee, Kline’s attorney, Robert Driscoll, wrote about his client’s concern about the course of the investigation, saying that the chairman issued a “sensational press release and memorandum with cherry-picked excerpts of sensitive and highly personal closed-door testimony” after interviewing just one witness — Newbold. Meadows and Jordan say that Cummings issued the press release without consulting Republican committee members or holding committee vote on the matter while targeting the president and his senior advisers.

Kline, according to Driscoll, was subpoenaed by the Committee for an April 23 deposition hearing, though he previously offered to appear voluntarily. However, in his letter to the Committee, Driscoll requested a withdrawal of the subpoena of his client “in substitution of a subpoena for White House records the Committee wishes to have Mr. Kline testify about.” Driscoll continued: However, if the Committee insists in proceeding with the subpoenaed testimony, I must prepare Mr. Kline without knowing your questions or the permitted areas of testimony. Thus, I must prepare him to respond to what I presume will inevitably be direct and implied accusations from this Committee that his conduct assessing security clearance issues—a non-political job responsibility he has carefully performed for decades—was either improper or inconsistent (or both) with longstanding bipartisan practice.

https://www.dailycaller.com/2019/04/12/requests-wh-security-clearance-obama-era-senior-advisors/

Notable: Bill Binney on the arrest of JA (16-min vid with summary)

Anon posted Binney interview in previous bread. Just finished watching. Not sure anons take on him but I found some of his past claims credible regarding Wikileaks and Russian hacking. He claims to have forensic evidence which proves no hacking occurred due to download speed and metadata. He states the speed was consistent with thumb drive upload. I'm curious if he was former NSA turned whistleblower, why his opinion would not hold weight and why he would not be interviewed. Video is 16 mins long. Link: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9HPs1RY1wvM

Notable: FBI man's testimony points to wrongdoing well beyond spying.

https:

//www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/04/11/fbi_mans_testimony_points_to_significant_wrongdoing_beyond_spying.html

FBI Man's Testimony Points to Wrongdoing Well Beyond Spying

Bill Priestap, left, with Michael Horowitz, DoJ inspector general.

By Eric Felten, RealClearInvestigations

April 12, 2019

Attorney General William Barr shocked official Washington Wednesday by saying what previously couldn't be said: That the counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign in 2016 involved “spying.”

The spying, which Barr vowed to investigate, is not the only significant possible violation of investigative rules and ethics committed by agents, lawyers, managers, and officials at the FBI and the Department of Justice. A catalogue of those abuses can be found in recently released testimony that ex-FBI official Edward William Priestap provided to Congress in a closed-door interview last summer.

From the end of 2015 to the end of 2018, Bill Priestap was assistant director of the FBI's Counterintelligence Division, which meant he oversaw the FBI’s global counterintelligence efforts. In that role, he managed both of the bureau’s most politically sensitive investigations: the inquiry into Hillary Clinton’s handling of classified information and the probe into whether Donald Trump or his campaign conspired with Russia to steal the 2016 presidential election.

Notable: Don Jr. pointed out CNN not reporting on Obama council being indicted, but instead they bringing on an Owl.

Don Jr. pointed out CNN not reporting on Obama council being indicted, but instead they bringing on an Owl. It could be symbolism

Notable: >>6156512, >>6156537, >>6156566, >>6156589, >>6156619, >>6156643, >>6156655 Bill & Hillary Clinton involved with child trafficking.

Are Bill & Hillary Clinton Involved with Child Trafficking?

The question on everyone’s mind – are Bill and Hillary Clinton connected to or involved with child sex trafficking or child labor trafficking networks – or, are they advocates for children as they portray themselves to be? Though, the focus is on both Bill and Hillary, this report will primarily break down a timeline of Hillary’s work as it relates to children, in addition to both of their connections with individuals who have been indicted and/or convicted of crimes against children – because they are stacking up. The information that follows will provide facts, for each person to use their own discernment in determining what they believe to be truth, or until further information is revealed.

Human trafficking is a $150 billion dollar industry.

Timeline of Hillary’s Work Specifically Involving Infants & Children:

1970: Worked at Yale Child Study Center, learning about early childhood brain development, and research assistant on the book Beyond the Best Interests of the Child, and handled cases of child abuse at Yale–New Haven Hospital

1970: Summer – worked on Walter Mondale’s Subcommittee on Migratory Labor

1971: Met husband Bill, interned at law firm Treuhaft, Walker and Burnstein where she worked on child custody and other cases

1973: Postgraduate study on children and medicine at Yale Child Study Center, her article “Children Under the Law” was published in the Harvard Educational Review, staff attorney at Marian Wright Edelman’s Children’s Defense Fund in Cambridge, MA, consultant to Carnegie Council on Children

1977: Co-founded Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families – a state level alliance with Children’s Defense Fund, and worked pro bono in child advocacy during her work at Rose Law Firm

1979: Published “Children’s Policies: Abandonment and Neglect and “Children’s Rights: A Legal Perspective

1985: Introduced Arkansas’s Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youth (preparedness & literacy)

1988-92: Children’s Defense Fund Chairman of the Board and on the board of the Arkansas Children’s Hospital’s legal services

1995: Wrote an article on orphaned children that led to the Adoption and Safe Families Act in 1997

1996: Published book “It Takes A Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us

1997: Supported State Children’s Health Insurance Program, and promoted nationwide immunization against childhood diseases; hosted child care conference and early childhood development and learning conferences at White House; initiated and shepherded the Adoption and Safe Families Act which required states to terminate parental rights for children in foster care for 15 out of 22 months and provided funding for efforts in encouraging adoption as well as subsidies for adoptive children up through age 18; By executive memorandum, her husband President Bill Clinton added the “Adoption 2002 Initiative” which aimed to lower barriers to adoption so as to double the rate of adoption by 2002

https://www.coreysdigs.com/child-trafficking/are-bill-hillary-clinton-involved-with-child-trafficking/

Part 1

Notable: Elon Musk-linked scientists are developing brain probes for DARPA.

Elon Musk-Linked Scientists Are Developing Brain Probes for DARPA

Last month a team of scientists affiliated with Elon Musk’s Neuralink project published a paper identifying a new technique for inserting probes into brains. The study was published in a journal called BioRxiv, and according to Bloomberg, all five of its authors have been associated with Nueralink. It was noted at the end of the study that the research was funded through a DARPA Contract.

The team is developing this technique in hopes of building technology that is capable of monitoring brain activity. The study has been deemed “the ‘sewing machine’ for minimally invasive neural recording,” since the technique works sort of like a sewing machine.

“Here, we demonstrate the feasibility and scalability of this approach with a system incorporating fine and flexible thin-film polymer probes, a fine and stiff insertion needle, and a robotic insertion machine. Together the system permits rapid and precise implantation of probes, each individually targeted to avoid observable vasculature and to attain diverse anatomical targets,” the study says.

In the study, researchers implanted arrays of electrodes in the brains of rats and then recorded their responses.

The researchers concluded:

“We have repeatedly and reliably implanted our thin, flexible electrodes in both agarose tissue proxy and the brains of rats.”

An alarming detail of the study is that the procedure was carried out by none other than a robot.

“Because the whole insertion process is automated and the robot can move quickly, per-thread insertion times were quite short. Indeed, other than the needle insertion, which is performed at 0.1-2 mm/s, robot movements are rapid, up to 100 mm/s. This allows for the per-thread insertion cycle times of less than 9 seconds. Such rapid insertion allows for large numbers of electrodes to be inserted in a practical surgical timeframe,” the study indicated.

Those left unsettled by these developments can rest assured, however, that this technology appears quite far from entering the market for human use. The researchers noted that the procedure caused injuries in lab rats and did not seem durable for long term use. Though the research team is reportedly working to perfect the process and will hopefully minimize these dangers over time.

https://themindunleashed.com/2019/04/elon-musk-scientists-brain-probes-darpa.html

Notable: DJT Tweet: "WSJ's Strassel: Barr 'Right' to Say 'Spying' Occurred on Trump Campaign…"

New DJT

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1116845082945171457

Notable: Dig on Jennifer Gaffney: The DA who let Epstein off.

Dig on Jennifer Gaffney- the DA who let Epstein off-

her 10 yr. registration expires this month with the NY Attorney's Office.

https://opengovus.com/new-york-state-attorney/2962868

She left the DA's office fall of 2018- Another Harvey Weinstein prosecutor quits DA’s office

"Veteran prosecutor Jennifer Gaffney, deputy chief of the Sex Crimes Unit, was thrown a going-away party on Sept. 20, sources said Monday. It was unclear whether Gaffney —

whose husband, Christopher Schmidt is an NYPD lieutenant

(Explains more about the quietness of Weiner laptop, and possible deaths of two NYPD officers involved) — quit to start a new job

https://pagesix.com/2018/10/15/another-harvey-weinstein-prosecutor-quits-das-office/

Notable: >>6156242 The curious case of Greg Craig.

https://philantropyinthemaking.com/2019/04/12/the-curious-case-of-greg-craig/

Notable: WH Tweet: "Former Obama officials are calling for a bipartisan solution to our border crisis…"

https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1116836900856389633

Notable: US Army ReTweet. 17:17 timestamp.

US ARMY RETWEET

17:17 timestamp

Notable: PapaD: CIA told me they were keeping tabs on me in 2014.

https://twitter.com/GeorgePapa19/status/1116837159154016256

Notable: >>6156065 Okeechobee school/body dig.

I dug some more on the fat Okeechogee, FL Sheriff Noel Stephen who did the half ass search for bodies at the sister school of DOZIER. Turns out his father-in-law was the Sheriff of Okeechogee before him. Keeping it all in the family. Good ole boys keeping secrets.

https://www.wpbf.com/article/cadaver-dogs-to-search-for-bodies-at-okeechobee-school-for-boys/1324734

https://www.okeechobeefuneralhome.com/obituaries/OL-Raulerson-33842/#!/Obituary

https://www.flsheriffs.org/sheriffs/bio/okeechobee-county

Notable: Zuckerberg compensation more than doubles with $22.6 million Facebook paycheck.

Zuckerberg compensation more than doubles with $22.6 million Facebook paycheck

(Reuters) - Facebook Inc Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg’s compensation for 2018 more than doubled to $22.6 million, a regulatory filing showed on Friday.

Facebook has in the past few years faced public outcry over its role in Russia's alleged influence on the 2016 U.S. presidential election and has come under fire following revelations that Cambridge Analytica obtained personal data from millions of Facebook profiles without consent.

Separately, Facebook said Netflix Chief Executive Officer Reed Hastings would vacate his seat on the social media company’s board and not be nominated for re-election.

Hastings’ departure comes as the Menlo Park-based company beefs up its push into videos. Hastings has served on Facebook’s board since 2011.

Facebook also said it will nominate PayPal’s senior vice president of core markets, Peggy Alford, to its board in place of University of North Carolina president emeritus Erskine Bowles, who will also not be re-nominated.

The company’s shares closed at $179.07 Friday evening.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-compensation-idUSKCN1RO2KH

Notable: Congressman Loebsack to retire in 2020.

https://twitter.com/NewsBreaking/status/1116828371374104576

Notable: Backlash against Omar's comments builds.

BACKLASH BUILDS…

twitter.com/seanhannity/status/1116833388323844096

BACKLASH BUILDS: Pelosi Vows to ‘Speak’ With Omar Over 9/11 Remarks, Top Dem Says ‘Extremely Hurtful’

www.hannity.com/media-room/backlash-builds-pelosi-vows-to-speak-with-omar-over-9-11-remarks-top-dem-says-extremely-hurtful/

Notable: >>6155952 Netflix CEO and Fmr. WH CoS stepping down from Facebook board. MZ takes home double compensation.

https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/1116827119240253440

Notable: Eating healthy soon to be pathologized.

Food Science - Creates and Maintains DISEASE

- Turns Young Boys into Girls

- Causes Obesity

- Sells us Industrial Waste Products Shaped Like Food

- Launders Toxic Chemicals to Avoid Their Proper Disposal

- Creates Addiction to ExcitoToxin Ingredients

Passion for eating healthy food declared a mental disorder by 'expert' psychiatrists

ORTHOREXIA

It's no secret to tens of millions of Americans that Big Food is poisoning us daily with their fare. If that were not the case, then GMO-free restaurant chains like Chipotle wouldn't be as popular as they are, and sales of organic foods would not be reaching record levels year after year.

Big Food, of course, isn't taking that lying down. "Mainstream" food producers may be enlisting the help of academia in getting Americans who believe in sustainable, clean food, declared mentally unstable.

University of Northern Colorado researchers say the condition is made worse by a fear of being unhealthy and shunning low-quality, pesticide-ridden, GMO-laden, gluten-stuffed foods.

https://www.naturalnews.com/052676_clean_eating_orthorexia_mental_disorders.html

https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/learn/by-eating-disorder/other/orthorexia

so that's one thing BUT

What if the entire child trafficking, human smuggling, relief org. orphan crisis red cross stuff is about FOOD and INDUSTRY. Fast Food. Popular Food Brands. Make Up. Toiletries. Leather Products, car seats handbags shoes….

WE ARE EATING WEARING AND WIPING - ALL OVER OURSELVES…… PEOPLE !!

Beyond Soylent. These people are sicker than ever thought.

Notable: General Electric agrees to pay $1.5 billion penalty for alleged misrepresentations concerning subprime loans included in residential mortgage-backed securities.

@TheJusticeDept

General Electric Agrees to Pay $1.5 Billion Penalty for Alleged Misrepresentations Concerning Subprime Loans Included in Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities

https://twitter.com/TheJusticeDept/status/1116741587600646150

Notable: More calls for full Mueller report.

https://twitter.com/big_cases/status/1116827445330612224

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5838466-Response-to-Order-to-Show-Cause.html

Notable: >>6156318 JA's smear campaign swings into action.

>>6155570

begin character assignation program….GO!

Notable: Protective Order filed in Craig case.

Protective Order filed in Craig case

There is something bigger going on behind the curtain.

This FARA case is pretty basic.

They are likely only using it as a lever to get something else.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5838467-Protective-Order.html

Notable: US DoD: "Flying in rare air."

Flying in rare air.

Flying what is considered one of the most difficult aircraft in the world to fly, U-2 Dragon Lady pilots require pressure suits to safely fly above 70,000 feet!

#KnowYourMi

Notable: Identity politics being used at an absurd level.

UPDATE: Rep. Tlaib Defends Ilhan Omar, Says Critics Trying to ‘Police Women of Color’

twitter.com/seanhannity/status/1116689945337446400

Notable: Giuliani: "Rep. Ilhan Omar must be denounced for outrageous 9/11 comments."

Rep. Ilhan Omar Must Be Denounced for Outrageous 9/11 Comments

twitter.com/RudyGiuliani/status/1116694099959197696

www.newsmax.com/bernardkerik/ilhan-omar-september-eleventh-minnesota/2019/04/10/id/911128/

Notable: Photos surface revealing 2017 'closed-door' meeting between Rep. Ilhan Omar and Turkish President Erdogan.

Photos Surface Revealing 2017 'Closed-Door' Meeting Between Rep. Ilhan Omar and Turkish President Erdogan

https://pjmedia.com/homeland-security/photos-surface-revealing-2017-closed-door-meeting-between-rep-ilhan-omar-and-turkish-president-erdogan/

Notable: POTUS 911 video 43 seconds long.

Patriot Anons

Notable: Planefag: Planefag: 44A10F gets around.

>>6155045

Check this one out

Notable: Kim Jong Un reportedly willing to meet for a third summit.

https://twitter.com/BreakingNLive/status/1116819538081910784

Notable: Planefag tracking UK/Ireland aircraft.

>>6154954

Agreed - this one is frequently dyslexic putting O where it should be 0 (zero).

C-37 R1944 arrived in UK Farnborough 16-00hrs local on the 11th.

Departed Irish airspace heading stateside 3hrs ago.

JA link?

Notable: Glenn Greenwald points out the MSM's hypocrisy and deceitful comments regarding JA.

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1116817814541733888

Notable: DJT Tweet: "WE WILL NEVER FORGET!" (video)

DJT

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1116817144006750209

Notable: Q clock update. Re-read crumbs.

Q CLOCK UPDATE - RE-READ CRUMBS

Today's Q Clock :11

RR.

Boom.

Good luck & God Bless!

WRAYs of LIGHT.

We are being set up.

IG = FBI

[[[[HUNTERS]]]] BECOME THE HUNTED.

Today's :25/:55 Q Clock Mirror :39

]SESSIONS[

FISA GOES BOTH WAYS.

THOSE THEY ATTACK THE MOST ARE THE BIGGEST THREAT.

AJ [TEMPLATE] WAS DESIGNED TO ATTACK/CENSOR 'QANON' [primary obj].

What part of another wave of attacks coming [yesterday] wasn't understood?

Twelve moves ahead.

Let the unsealing begin.

Today's 180-Degree Q Clock Mirror :41

Bomb disposal team.

Bomb(s) about to blow.

Puzzle coming together?

TREASON.

Trolling is FUN!

PANIC is GOOD.

Will the rich & powerful influence the court to prevent the unsealing?

THIS IS ABOUT SAVING AMERICA. WRWY N1LB FG&C WWG1WGA!

Notable: No trafficking in Kraft case?

https://nypost.com/2019/04/12/prosecutors-concede-no-human-trafficking-in-kraft-spa-case/

WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCK

Says none but at the end says police link it to trafficking public ally multiple times

Notable: AZAZ09O9 heading towards DC from Kansas City / Ft Leavenworth.

>>6154822

AZAZ09O9 heading towards DC from Kansas City / Ft Leavenworth.

Notable: Q: Lost bible scriptures?

The letter Q has a history within Bible research as being the name of an ancient early lost text of Christ's teachings consistent within the 4 gospels within the New Testament. It is considered important source material. Q: The Source.

http://www.gospel-mysteries.net/lost-gospels.html

Notable: POTUS: "Thanks to President @realDonaldTrump, America is now winning the global race to deploy secure and reliable 5G!"

https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1116814250096386049

Notable: Milley: "Happy birthday to Army Aviation!"

https://twitter.com/ArmyChiefStaff/status/1116808290250498051

Notable: House Oversight Committee planning to subpoena POTUS financial records.

https://twitter.com/BreakingNLive/status/1116808281698316300

Notable: 11th MEU: "Not in our Waters!"

https://twitter.com/11thmeu/status/1116781790897803265?s=19

Not in our waters

Notable: New York DA knew Clinton pal Epstein was "dangerous pedophile" while arguing for leniency. The "Weiner" treatment.

New York DA Knew Clinton Pal Epstein Was "Dangerous Pedophile" While Arguing For Leniency

Since the Miami Herald exposed the sweetheart deal given to billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a wealthy financier who fraternized with Bill Clinton, Kevin Spacey, lawyer Alan Dershowitz and other famous and powerful people, his victims and their attorneys have renewed their push to have documents from the case that led to his 2008 conviction unsealed.

Now, the New York Post has obtained some of these documents after a lengthy court battle. And the revelations contained within were nothing short of shocking.

After Epstein was convicted by federal prosecutors in Florida for soliciting sex with an underage girl, the billionaire was forced to register as a sex offender in New York, where he owned a home on the Upper West Side.

But just as Alex Acosta, the US attorney responsible for overseeing the Epstein case (now Trump's Secretary of Labor), negotiated an incredibly lenient punishment for Epstein (he spent a year in jail), the Manhattan DA's office was also suspiciously accommodating. When he appeared for a hearing on his sex offender status, the DA was ready to assign him the lowest Sex Offender designation possible, despite possessing overwhelming evidence that he was a dangerous predator who merited the most restrictive penalties.

The DA's office had been provided an assessment from the state that delved into the allegations against Epstein (allegations for which he escaped punishment) had sexual contact with "numerous" underage girls ranging from 14 to 17. The board assigned Epstein a score of 130 on its risk assessment scale, solidly above the 110 threshold to be categorized as a "level 3" offender.

In advance of the hearing, then-deputy chief of Sex Crimes, Jennifer Gaffney, had been given a confidential state assessment that deemed Epstein to be highly dangerous and likely to keep preying on young girls, the DA’s office admitted in its own appellate brief eight months after the hearing.

The brief has been sealed since 2011, but The Post obtained it Thursday after suing to get it unsealed.

It describes a state assessment’s findings that Epstein should be monitored in New York as a level three offender —-reserved for the most dangerous.

In making its assessment, the NY state Board of Examiners of Sex Offenders evaluated the sworn, corroborated accounts of numerous young girls who had been lured into Epstein’s Palm Beach, Fla., compound in 2005 and 2006.

Girls aged 14 to 17 years old were recruited and paid $200 to $1,000 to give Epstein erotic massages that included sexual contact, intercourse and rape, Palm Beach cops found.

Epstein pleaded guilty in Palm Beach to abusing just one of these young victims, and was required to register as a sex offender in New York since he had an Upper East Side home.

Manhattan prosecutors were aware the state board had assigned Epstein a risk assessment of 130, a number that is “solidly above the 110 qualifying number for level three,” with “absolutely no basis for downward departure,” the brief notes.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-12/new-york-da-knew-clinton-pal-epstein-was-dangerous-pedophile-while-arguing-leniency

Notable: Rod Rosenstein: Saying Barr is misleading with Mueller summary ‘bizarre’.

Rod Rosenstein: Saying Barr Is Misleading with Mueller Summary ‘Bizarre’

On Wednesday, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein maintained that Barr is being “as forthcoming as he can” with regard to the Mueller report.

“He’s being as forthcoming as he can, and so this notion that he’s trying to mislead people, I think, is just completely bizarre,” Rosenstein told The Wall Street Journal in an interview published Wednesday. He believes the public should have “tremendous confidence” in Barr’s integrity.

“It would be one thing if you put out a letter and said, ‘I’m not going to give you the report,’” Rosenstein said. “What he said is, ‘Look, it’s going to take a while to process the report. In the meantime, people really want to know what’s in it. I’m going to give you the top-line conclusions.’ That’s all he was trying to do.”

Lat month, the Attorney General released a four-page summary of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s findings during his investigation into the Trump campaign’s alleged collusion with Russia. According to the summary, Mueller found no collusion with Russia but made no definitive conclusions on obstruction of justice.

Barr has suggested there may have been “improper surveillance” on President Trump’s 2016 campaign and said he was “looking into it.” He has promised to release a redacted version of the full report in April. However, Trump said early this morning, “No matter what we do or give to the Radical Left, it will never be enough!”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/12/rod-rosenstein-saying-barr-is-misleading-with-mueller-summary-bizarre/

Notable: Plane crashes into Connecticut high school baseball field.

Plane crashes into Connecticut high school baseball field

A small plane reportedly crashed into a high school baseball field in Connecticut Thursday evening, injuring two people and causing a power outage that led the administration to cancel class Friday.

The pilot was performing a touch-and-go drill, which involves landing on a runway and taking off again without coming to a full stop, near Meriden-Markham Airport, when he crashed into ballfields at Wilcox Technical High School in Meriden, public information officer Sgt. Christopher Fry told WTIC.

PLANE CRASH IN COLOMBIA KILLS 14, OFFICIALS SAY

Police were called to the scene around 7 p.m. where first responders found two men, one in his 30s and one in his 50s, near the wreckage, WTNH reported. One man was able to pull himself out of the plane without assistance. The other was pulled from the plane by emergency personnel.

No one died in the crash and no one on the ground was injured. The two occupants of the plane, who are both pilots, were both transported to the hospital to be treated for non-life-threatening injuries, police said. The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed only two people were onboard.

Moar:

https://www.foxnews.com/us/plane-crashes-into-connecticut-high-school-baseball-field

Notable: Boston Globe writer urges waiters to ‘tamper’ with food of Republicans.

Boston Globe writer urges waiters to ‘tamper’ with food of Republicans

A Boston Globe columnist called for waiters to contaminate the food of Trump administration officials. The column by Luke O'Neil was modified and then taken down by Globe editors. “Keep Kirstjen Nielsen unemployed and eating Grubhub over her kitchen sink,” referring to the recently ousted Department of Homeland Security secretary. “As for the waiters out there, I’m not saying you should tamper with anyone’s food, as that could get you into trouble,” O’Neil wrote. “You might lose your serving job. But you’d be serving America. And you won’t have any regrets years later.” He added that '“not pissing in Bill Kristol’s salmon" when he was a waiter was one of his eternal regrets. “I was waiting on the disgraced neoconservative pundit and chief Iraq War cheerleader about 10 years ago at a restaurant in Cambridge and to my eternal dismay, some combination of professionalism and pusillanimity prevented me from appropriately seasoning his entree,”

The Globe to found itself dealing with a wave of outrage. Herman Cain, one of President Trump's two picks for the Federal Reserve Board, tweeted, "Who makes the editorial decisions at the Boston Globe?"

O’Neil hit back at the Globe for removing the article from its website. “Absolute brain genius move by the Globe to edit my story three times then take it down altogether and put up a note saying I’m not on staff instead of perhaps standing by a long time contributor and siding with labor instead of bad faith critics who would hate them no matter what,” O’Neil said on Twitter. He added: “I will never write for them again.”

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/boston-globe-writer-urges-waiters-to-tamper-with-republican-officials-food

Notable: US declassifies some 11,000 pages of documents on Argentina dirty war.

@SputnikInt

US declassifies some 11,000 pages of documents on Argentina dirty war – Pentagon

https://twitter.com/SputnikInt/status/1116806948077342722

Notable: Jim Jordan's response to Cummings subpoena of a private company to target POTUS.

https://twitter.com/GOPoversight/status/1116806734390222848

Notable: Trump attorney Jay Sekulow confirms SpyGate coup told “no” *three* times at the FISA Court.

BREAKING: Trump⁩ attorney Jay Sekulow⁩ CONFIRMS SpyGate coup told “NO” *THREE* times at the FISA Court.

I believe this is the FIRST TIME we’ve had WH-level confirmation of this. It’s QUICK but it’s THERE. ⁦

Notable: Ex-Venezuelan head of military intel detained in Madrid at US request .

Ex-Venezuelan Head of Military Intel Detained in Madrid at US Request - Police

MADRID (Sputnik) - The former head of the Venezuelan military intelligence and a member of the country's National Assembly, Hugo Carvajal, was arrested in Madrid on Friday at the request of the United States on drug trafficking charges, the Spanish National Police Corps told Sputnik.

"Hugo Carvajal was arrested this afternoon in Madrid," the police said.

Earlier in the day, Venezuelan journalist Nelson Bocaranda reported that Carvajal was arrested and would be extradited to the United States in the near future.

Citing a unidentified senior administration official, Reuters has reported that Carvajal is expected to cooperate with US officials and provide information on Venezuela's ties to terror groups. The source indicated to the outlet that Carvajal has a "treasure trove" of information, and that he will be safer in the US.

https://sputniknews.com/world/201904121074085223-former-venezuela-intelligence/

Notable: DOD outreach: "Going in for the takedown!"

Going in for the takedown!

twitter.com/DoDOutreach/status/1116802712782372867

Notable: U.S. EPA revives provision that may name refiners applying for biofuel waivers.

U.S. EPA revives provision that may name refiners applying for biofuel waivers

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Friday took the first step to revive part of a rule that could, if finalized, reveal the names of oil refineries which applied for exemptions from the nation’s biofuel laws.

The move is seen as a win for the corn industry, which has criticized the waiver program due to its lack of transparency. The EPA only in 2017 first began releasing the number of waiver petitions it has received and granted but the names have been kept confidential so far.

Under the federal Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program, refiners are required to blend biofuels into the nation’s gasoline pool, but small operations can apply for exemptions. The Trump administration made extensive use of such waivers in the last two years, saving refiners money but angering the corn lobby, particularly after major companies like Exxon Mobil Corp received exemptions for certain facilities.

The issue is a battlefield between the rival oil and corn industries. The ethanol industry claims the exemptions have been overused, threatening demand for corn-based ethanol at a time when farmers are already struggling.

The oil companies have long complained that speculation in the biofuels credit market has inflated prices and complying with cost them hundreds of millions of dollars – one of a long list of complaints by the industry about U.S. biofuel policy.

On Friday, the EPA signed a Federal Register notice saying it is reopening the comment period for a provision in a rule related to the small refinery exemption program that was first introduced in 2016.

That provision from 2016 proposed to establish a determination that basic information related to EPA actions on petitions for RFS small refinery and small refiner exemptions may not be claimed as confidential business information, according to a document on the provision on EPA’s website.

“With respect to each decision on a small refinery/refiner exemption request, we would release to the public the petitioner’s name, the name and location of the facility for which relief was requested, the general nature of the relief requested, the time period for which relief was requested, and the extent to which EPA granted or denied the requested relief,” the document said.

While ethanol groups mostly hailed the move, oil industry representatives were largely critical. Fuelling American Jobs Coalition said the proposal, if finalized, would do more harm than good.

“The data underlying Small Refinery Exemption requests reflects the underlying financial health of facilities in the highly competitive refining sector. Such information can affect access to capital for marginal refineries and can make them attractive targets of acquisition, literally moving markets,” it said in a statement.

To obtain a waiver, refineries with a capacity of less than 75,000 barrels per day (bpd) have to prove that compliance with RFS would cause them significant financial strain. They submit information about the company’s financial health while doing that, although the EPA’s provision does not include revealing that.

EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler, in an interview with Reuters on Thursday, hinted there could be fewer exemptions under his leadership due to the lower price of biofuel credits that have reduced economic hardship, which is one of the conditions for the exemption.

https://stockawiki.com/u-s-epa-revives-provision-that-may-name-refiners-applying-for-biofuel-waivers/

Notable: Congressman Devin Nunes (R-CA) has sent a criminal referral notification to Attorney General William Barr claiming “potential violations” in the FBI’s handling of the Trump-Russia probe.

NOTABLE

BREAKING, from U.S. Atty Press Release: Jury Finds Local Businessman Keith Forney guilty of fraud related to his obtaining small business preferences for his company, Forney Enterprises, Inc., in bidding for D.C. government contracts. Background:

Breaking: Nunes Sends Criminal Referral Notification to Barr–“Potential Violations” in Russia Probe

Congressman Devin Nunes (R-CA) has sent a criminal referral notification to Attorney General William Barr claiming “potential violations” in the FBI’s handling of the Trump-Russia probe, according to Fox News.

“As part of that investigation, Committee Republicans identified several potential violations of law,” Nunes wrote in a brief letter to Barr today.

Nunes and Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX) are prepared to brief the attorney general on their “eight criminal referrals.”

According to Fox, “The letter did not provide further details on what the referrals will allege but the congressman previously told Fox News the referrals include two for conspiracy, as well as for ‘global leaks’ and for lying, misleading or obstructing congressional investigators.”

Yesterday, Attorney General Barr testified before a Senate committee that he believed “spying” on the Trump campaign did occur.

“I think spying did occur,” he said. “The question is whether it was adequately predicated. … I think it’s my obligation. Congress is usually very concerned with intelligence agencies and law enforcement agencies staying in their proper lane.”

Congressman Mark Meadows (R-NC) recently suggested more criminal referrals are in the works.

Responding to a tweet on Monday about Nunes’ referrals, Meadows wrote, “More criminal referrals to come. And certainly more deserved. Overwhelming evidence shows multiple FBI + DOJ executives abused their power to undermine a duly elected President Trump. They will be held accountable.”

https://bongino.com/breaking-nunes-sends-criminal-referral-notification-to-barr-potential-violations-in-russia-probe/

Notable: 27 more 'possible graves' found near Fla. reform school infamous for beatings, sex abuse.

https://people.com/crime/dozier-school-boys-florida-bodies-found-infamous-beatings-sex-abuse/

27 More 'Possible Graves' Found Near Fla. Reform School Infamous for Beatings, Sex Abuse

Notable: Dems demanding DOJ disclose results of misconduct handling Epstein case.

https://twitter.com/NewsBreaking/status/1116799560867647488

Notable: Democrats new favorite strategy: strong arming financial institutes.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/12/david-hogg-celebrates-birthday-targeting-banks-finance-gunmakers/

Notable: Mktfag Report

==Mktfag Report=

Disney, Dimon, & A China Debt Surge Lift Stocks As Economic Data Collapses

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Just keep repeating: "the market is not the economy".

Except that is the exact opposite of what former Fed Chair Alan Greenspan told the world this morning, explaining that much of the improvement has come from a rise in stock market prices:

He sees a “stock market aura” in the economy.

A rise of 10 percent in the S&P 500 corresponds to a 1 percent real GDP increase, he said. The S&P 500 has risen nearly 16 percent in 2019 and is on track for its best performance in history should current trends hold.

So who is right - Greenspan or the asset-gatherers and commission-takers?

China was weak on the week with ChiNext's worst week since before Thanksgiving (after rising for 9 straight weeks).

Mixed picture in Europe this week with Italy and France outperforming and Spain the laggard.

US futures show the moment that China credit and trade data hit, sending stocks soaring.

On the week, Trannies were the big winners as Small Caps clung to gains and The Dow scrambled today to get back to breakeven on the week…(despite utter desperation in the algos, The Dow ended the week red)

DISney lifted The Dow dramatically and sent NFLX lower.

Chevron tumbled as it bid for Anadarko.

And then there was JPM - which surged on record results and Dimon's bullish remarks - compared to Wells which was ugly.

(they both sucked-when you can move around the pile's on your balance sheet to achieve the result's you want it's not that hard to get a 'positive' result-Wells was moar honest about it than JPM imo)

Treasury yields were all notably higher on the week, led by the belly up 7-8bps.(that mean's medium to med-long term T-Notes)

10Y Yields rose back above 2.50%, back up to the March FOMC levels.

The Dollar Index (DXY) ended the week lower, back below the Maginot Line of 97.00 (as in DO NOT CROSS THIS)

For the seventh week in a row, China's Yuan was flat (thanks to a big jump overnight).

Bitcoin and Ethereum held on to gains for the week as Ripple and Litecoin tumbled.

(ha ha sucks to be you Bix!)

Despite the USD weakness, PMs were weaker (with silver slammed) as copper and crude gained.

Gold is trading at its 'richest' to silver (86.1x) since 1993. (this should tell you something-when everyone "hates" it, you should love it)

Commodities and rates are aligned in their view of reflation (nothing much)

Because, remember, fun-durr-mentals don't matter!!! ==Only global money supply does.==

(stick that in your pipe anon from this morning)

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-12/disney-dimon-china-debt-surge-lift-stocks-economic-data-collapses

(cap#3 is yesterday on NASDAQ-this was certainly short covering as if it were actual organic long buying the index would have risen substantially-it did not, see here:

What is Short Covering?

Short covering refers to buying back borrowed securities in order to close open short positions at a profit or loss. It requires the purchase of the same security that was initially sold short, since the process involved borrowing the security and selling it in the market. For example, a trader sells short 100 shares of XYZ at $20, based on the opinion those shares will head lower. When XYZ declines to $15, the trader buys back XYZ to cover the short position, booking a $500 profit from the sale. This process is also known as “buy to cover.”)

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/shortcovering.asp

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EDJI?p=^DJI

Please visit this site for any unfamiliar terms

https://www.investopedia.com/dictionary/

Notable: >>6153769 Counter-terrorism operation ongoing in Russia. ISIS.

https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1116792731647373312

Notable: Elizabeth Warren wants to end "beyond a resonable doubt" for criminal convictions.

Elizabeth Warren Wants To End "Beyond A Resonable Doubt" For Criminal Convictions

Each Friday we highlight a number of important, and often bizarre stories from around the world that my team and I are closely following:

Elizabeth Warren wants to destroy centuries of legal standards

To take your freedom requires more evidence than to take your money. For now.

Criminal convictions depend on the accused being guilty beyond all reasonable doubt. Civil convictions depend only on a preponderance of evidence pointing to guilt.

But Senator Elizabeth Warren introduced a bill last week to apply criminal penalties to corporate executives found civilly liable for company misconduct.

And these criminal penalties would apply regardless of intent. Failure to stop a crime would be considered a crime itself, whether you knew about it or not.

The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers is speaking out against the proposed law, calling it a dangerous attempt to abandon “core principles of criminal law that have been part of the Anglo-American legal tradition for centuries.”

As a former Harvard Law Professor, Warren must understand the implications of this bill. And that makes her a very scary candidate to occupy the oval office.

But what else would we expect from this crop of rising Bolsheviks? Revolutions can’t abide by stale old ideas like rule of law.

Philadelphia becomes the first major US city to ban cashless stores

Two weeks ago we talked about a San Francisco politician trying to require all stores in the city to hire cashiers and accept cash.

Now Philadelphia has beat them to the punch. It is the first major US city to outlaw the coming innovation of cash/cashierless stores, like Amazon Go.

The excuse, of course, is that people without access to credit cards or bank accounts won’t be able to use those cashless stores.

Seems like it would be a lot easier for those people to continue going to the same stores where they are currently shopping, and allow other consumers who prefer to shop at Amazon Go to make their own decisions.

But no. Politicians’ zeal to stick it to Amazon outweighs everything else… so they choose instead to outlaw innovation at the expense of consumers.

Another victory for the Bolsheviks!

Genealogy companies go all in for the Federal Government

Two months ago, Family Tree DNA shared a database full of private customer DNA data with the federal government.

After a backlash from customers, the company changed their rules to allow people to opt out of sharing their DNA with law enforcement.

But now Family Tree DNA is preparing an advertising offensive called “Families Want Answers,” in an attempt to convince customers it is their “moral responsibility” to share their DNA with law enforcement.

The surveillance state continues to be built in the private sector, by willing participants.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-12/elizabeth-warren-wants-end-beyond-resonable-doubt-criminal-convictions

Notable: Wherever Putin goes, GPS stops working. Report tracking Russian GPS spoofing activity reveals.

Wherever Putin Goes, GPS Stops Working. Report Tracking Russian GPS Spoofing Activity Reveals

Wherever Russian President Vladimir Putin goes, GPS stops working properly, a study published by C4ADS (formerly the Center for Advanced Defense Studies), named “Above us only stars” concludes.

C4ADS as per its description is a “nonprofit organization dedicated to providing data-driven analysis and evidence-based reporting on global conflict and transnational security issues.” Its board of directors is primarily individuals connected to the US military, Congress, while some are distinguished scientists in their fields.

The report is powered by “Palantir,” the company that “knows everything about you”:

“Founded in 2004 by Peter Thiel and some fellow PayPal alumni, Palantir cut its teeth working for the Pentagon and the CIA in Afghanistan and Iraq. The company’s engineers and products don’t do any spying themselves; they’re more like a spy’s brain, collecting and analyzing information that’s fed in from the hands, eyes, nose, and ears.”

The analysis looks at GPS and GNSS spoofing and jamming by Russia, mostly wherever Putin goes. It is also used around sensitive sites around Russia, “its occupied territories,” and Syria.

The report begins with the observation: GPS and other Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are used in everything from cellular communication networks, to basic consumer goods, high-end military systems, and stock trading inputs.

“But these systems are vulnerable: by attacking positioning, navigational, and timing (PNT) data through electronic warfare (EW) capabilities, state and non-state actors can cause significant damage to modern militaries, major economies, and everyday consumers alike. With recent technological advances, the tools and methodologies for conducting this interference are now at a high risk for proliferation. GNSS attacks are emerging as a viable, disruptive strategic threat.”

By using publicly available data, C4ADS carried out a research by using publicly available data. It discerned the ability to mimic, or “spoof,” legitimate GNSS signals in order to manipulate PNT data.

According to the research spoofing is quite actively used in Russia, Crimea and Syria, and this in turn demonstrates that Russia is growing a comparative advantage in the targeted use and development of GNSS spoofing capabilities to achieve tactical and strategic objectives at home and abroad.

The research is separated into four sections looking into different cases of Russian state activity based on locations and the systems that were allegedly used:

In Section One – activity of GNSS spoofing is examined across Russia, “its occupied territories,” and overseas military facilities. In total 9,883 suspected instances across 10 locations that affected 1,311 civilian vessel navigation systems since February 2016 were identified.

In Section Two – the role of GNSS spoofing in VIP protection, mostly Vladimir Putin, but also others. According to the report, the Russian Federal Service (FSO) operates mobile systems to facilitate the activity. Review of Russian procurement data also even provided a possible mobile system that was manufactured by a company connected to the FSO.

In Section Three – the role of GNSS for strategic protection is looked into. Potential technology was used for facility protection in Moscow. Spoofing was also used in coastal regions of Russia and Crimea in the Black Sea. One of the sites is a “multi-million dollar ‘palace’ formerly owned by reported family members of senior FSO officers and previously reported to be built for President Putin.”

In Section Four – finally, Russian spoofing activity is looked into in active combat zones where Russia is present, Syria in particular.

Furthermore, according to the report, Russia has a clear advantage currently, but the low cost, commercial availability, and ease of deployment of these technologies will empower not only states, but also insurgents, terrorists, and criminals in a wide range of destabilizing state-sponsored and non-state illicit networks.

More

https://southfront.org/wherever-putin-goes-gps-stops-working-report-tracking-russian-gps-spoofing-activity-reveals/

Notable: Sudan military chief steps down a day after staging coup to topple long-time leader Omar al-Bashir.

https://twitter.com/BreakingDotUK/status/1116790849457639424

Notable: Facebook removes page of Ecuador's former President on same day as Assange's arrest.

Facebook Removes Page of Ecuador's Former President on Same Day as Assange's Arrest

Facebook has unpublished the page of Ecuador’s former president, Rafael Correa, the social media giant confirmed on Thursday, claiming that the popular leftist leader violated the company’s security policies.

In a statement republished by Ecuadorean newspaper El Comercio, a company spokesperson said:

“Protecting the privacy and security of people is central to Facebook [and] we have clear policies that do not allow the disclosure of personal information such as phone numbers, addresses, bank account data, cards, or any record or data that could compromise the integrity physical or financial of the people in our community.”

The move comes on the same day that Ecuador’s government allowed British security personnel to enter their embassy in London to arrest journalist and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been sought by U.S. officials for years due to his role in releasing scandalous information implicating Washington in a range of crimes, including war crimes.

#AlertaDigitalEC Página en Facebook del exPresidente @MashiRafael no puede ser accesada, se desconocen motivos – link https://t.co/aerBqw6kcl pic.twitter.com/87oTEW4lAI

— 𝓤𝓼𝓾𝓪𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓼 𝓓𝓲𝓰𝓲𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓮𝓼 (@usuariosdigital) April 12, 2019

Assange, 47, had been living at the Embassy of Ecuador in London since 2012, when then-President Correa granted political asylum to the Australian amid the British government’s attempts to detain him. At the time, Correa called Eduador’s actions an act of sovereign “duty.”

Ecuador’s current leader, Lenin Moreno, was openly opposed to Assange, whom he referred to on various occasions as a “miserable hacker,” an “irritant,” and a “stone in the shoe” of his government. Moreno’s distancing from the asylee came following a 2017 meeting with Trump campaign confidant and political “fixer” Paul Manafort, where the two discussed Ecuador’s handover of Assange to U.K. and U.S. authorities.

In March, WikiLeaks published a tranche of documents dubbed the INA Papers linking President Lenin Moreno to the INA Investment Corporation, an offshore shell company used by Moreno to procure furniture, property, and various luxury items.

The account number for the offshore account allegedly used by the president to launder money was shared across Ecuadorean social networks by netizens of all political stripes, including by Correa – who had about 1.5 million followers and whose Facebook page enjoyed more interactions and attention than that of President Moreno himself.

The account number was also shared alongside personal photos of President Moreno enjoying lavish breakfasts and dinners of lobster—imagery considered especially damning for the people of Ecuador given Moreno’s previous boasting of an austere poverty diet consisting of eggs and white rice.

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/72123/facebook-removes-page-of-ecuadors-former-president-on-same-day-as-assanges.html

https://themindunleashed.com/2019/04/facebook-removes-rafael-correa-page.html

Notable: Honduran national charged with raping, murdering NJ jogger was deported twice .

Honduran National Charged with Raping, Murdering NJ Jogger Was Deported Twice

A Honduran national charged with raping and murdering a jogger in New Jersey had been deported twice before, the government reported.

Officials say that Jorge Rios, 33, was deported once in 2003 and then again in 2004, according to the New York Post.

Police arrested Rios after surveillance video allegedly showed him stalking his victim, 45-year-old Caroline Cano, then beating her, raping her, and brutally drowning her in a park lake when she was out for a morning run in Jersey City’s Lincoln Park on March 24.

Investigators said that immediately after the crime, Rios walked to a friend’s house and reportedly asked how many years he could get for murdering someone.

A criminal complaint against Rios said that Cano, a Peruvian, died “as a result of homicidal violence including strangulation and water submersion.” Police also said Rios confessed during questioning.

The complaint detailed the suspect’s actions on the surveillance video. “The male observes the victim and proceeds to walk behind her. Upon approaching the football parking lot, the victim is seen running with the male running directly behind her,” court documents state.

“The male is seen continuing south, stopping, turning to look behind him towards the victim, and then running in the same direction as the victim,” the papers add.

ICE put a detainer on Rios for deportation once again, but not until he serves his sentence for murder if convicted.

When Rios was arrested, federal immigration authorities slammed the New Jersey city for its “limited cooperation” with federal authorities on immigration issues.

“ICE maintains that cooperation by local law enforcement is an indispensable component of promoting public safety,” the Newark ICE office said in a statement on April 5. “ICE will seek taking custody of Rios-Doblado at the conclusion of his criminal proceedings, despite limited cooperation in the state.”

Follow Warner Todd Huston on Twitter @warnerthuston.

https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2019/04/12/honduran-national-charged-raping-murdering-new-jersey-jogger-deported-twice/

Notable: California governor makes new proposals to fight wildfires, PG&E shares rise.

California governor makes new proposals to fight wildfires, PG&E shares rise

(Reuters) - California Governor Gavin Newsom released a report on Friday calling for the creation of funds to fight wildfires and proposed that state law should be reformed to reduce liability of utilities, sending PG&E Corp up nearly 12 percent.

Newsom’s report calls for changing liability for wildfire damage to a fault-based system. The current system, known as inverse condemnation, exposes the state’s utilities to liabilities from wildfires regardless of their negligence, as long as their equipment is involved.

The current system pushed PG&E to seek bankruptcy protection in January, as it faced liabilities in excess of $30 billion related to the deadliest wildfires in California’s history.

“Under the status quo, all parties lose – wildfire survivors, energy consumers and Californians committed to addressing climate change. The imperative now is on action,” Newsom said.

The report proposed creating two funds to help utilities pay for wildfire damage claims and spread the cost more widely among stakeholders.

Shares of Edison International also rose 7 percent at $66.8.

Edison International is the parent company of the utility Southern California Edison Co. Earlier in March, investigators found that the devastating Thomas Fire in northwest of Los Angeles was sparked by power lines owned by SoCal.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pg-e-us-california-plan-idUSKCN1RO2D3

Notable: >>6153332, >>6153364 Video and details of immolation man being carried away by USSS.

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Vid of the man being carried away.

https://twitter.com/sotiridi/status/1116780951978356737

Notable: >>6152915 Security incident unfolding outside the White House. The secret service members have arrested one person

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Update with video

#Breaking: Just in - Security incident unfolding outside the White House. The secret service members have arrested one person! Unknown if more are involved area is in lockdown. Video

https://twitter.com/sotiridi/status/1116779801124253696

Notable: Louisiana Diocese Releases List Of Accused Predator Priests

Louisiana Diocese Releases List Of Accused Predator Priests

The Catholic Diocese of Lake Charles, Louisiana, released the names of 12 diocesan clerics Thursday who were allegedly credibly accused of sexual abuse.

The list included the names of four priests, five members of religious orders from the diocese, one priest who served in the area before it became the Lake Charles diocese and two clerics who appear “on lists of other known perpetrators” but have never had an accusation reported in the diocese. Of those listed, eight have died, two are imprisoned, one is “prohibited from ministry” and another has been “sentenced to a life of prayer and penance.”

Those on the list served in the diocese at some point since its founding in 1980.

“To the best of my knowledge, we have reviewed and acted upon every report we have received,” Bishop Glen John Provost said in a video message posted on the diocesan website.

Provost also clarified in a letter that an ad hoc review board consisting of “a retired judge, a retired sheriff, and an attorney” compiled the list after reviewing the diocesan files and archives. The bishop noted that since the diocese is relatively new, names on its list may overlap with any list released by the Diocese of Lafayette.

The diocese of Lafayette, which promised to release a list of credibly accused priests on Friday, will be the last of Louisiana’s seven dioceses to release the names of alleged predator priests.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/11/louisiana-diocese-predator-list/

http://www.wafb.com/2019/04/11/diocese-lake-charles-list-credibly-accused-clergy/

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Notable: The White House is moving to dissolve the Office of Personnel Management (OPM)

President Trump Is Eliminating A Major Federal Agency. The White House Told Us Why

The White House is moving to dissolve the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and reorganize the agency’s responsibilities into three existing departments in order to “drive what is needed to support the mission in all of government.”

“When we really look at the need for government overall, and we looked at the [OPM’s] design to support those needs, there was a fundamental structural misalignment between the challenges of today around our workforce and what OPM was conditioned to do,” Margaret Weichert, deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget and acting OPM director, told The Daily Caller News Foundation on Thursday.

The agency was formed in 1979 and tasked with managing the government’s civilian workforce, which includes healthcare, insurance and retirement benefits, as well as oversight and human resources policies for federal employees.

President Donald Trump’s administration is planning to dismantle OPM, beginning in fall 2019, and divide its functions among three separate departments: Department of Defense (DOD), General Services Administration (GSA) and Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

The OPM is responsible for managing the majority of government security clearances. The restructuring would have the DOD oversee the massive background investigation operation. And GSA could soon take over OPM’s current human resources obligations, according to The Washington Post.

OMB would head the high-level policies that govern federal employees, but only three people from OPM are expected to transfer over to the executive office, a senior administration official explained to TheDCNF. However, those three individuals would be assigned new roles in the department.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/12/office-personnel-management-trump/

Notable: LIVE POTUS remarks on 5G depolyment

https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1116772247190982657

the ever-elusive 5g conundrum

Notable: Cryptologic School Commandant Diane Janosek Cryptologic School Commandant Diane Janosek Notice "Q'

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>https://twitter.com/NSAGov/status/1116774531195183104?s=20

Notable: Google Blasted For Labeling Anti-Abortion Film Unplanned’ As ‘Propaganda’

Google Blasted For Labeling Anti-Abortion Film Unplanned’ As ‘Propaganda’

Google is being blasted for labeling the new pro-life film “Unplanned” as “propaganda.”

The Daily Signal’s Kelsey Bolar posted a note on Twitter on Thursday that showed a screenshot of a Google search for the film, adding the caption: “Who knew that ‘propaganda’ was a movie genre? Google once again exposing its gross political bias.”

Google Blasted For Labeling Anti-Abortion Film Unplanned’ As ‘Propaganda’

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Google is being blasted for labeling the new pro-life film “Unplanned” as “propaganda.”

The Daily Signal’s Kelsey Bolar posted a note on Twitter on Thursday that showed a screenshot of a Google search for the film, adding the caption: “Who knew that ‘propaganda’ was a movie genre? Google once again exposing its gross political bias.”

“Unplanned” takes a critical look at Planned Parenthood. “As one of the youngest Planned Parenthood clinic directors in the nation, Abby Johnson was involved in upwards of 22,000 abortions and counseled countless women on their reproductive choices,” Rotten Tomatoes says in a brief description of the film. “Her passion surrounding a woman’s right to choose led her to become a spokesperson for Planned Parenthood, fighting to enact legislation for the cause she so deeply believed in. Until the day she saw something that changed everything.”

Fox News got in touch with Google to ask about the label.

A Google spokesperson explained to Fox News that its “Knowledge Graph” analyzed web content on “Unplanned” and that a large volume of it described the film as propaganda and placed the label without a universal consensus.

“When we’re made aware of disputed facts in our Knowledge Graph, we work to fix the issues, as we’ve done in this case,” the spokesperson told Fox News. Google has updated the search results so that “propaganda” no longer appears as the genre.

After Bolar made her post, other responded.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/04/google-blasted-for-dubbing-anti-abortion-film-unplanned-propaganda/

Notable: Montgomery alleges that government wiretapped 17 Trump businesses, Trump Tower, Trump leasing programs, DJT himself and Trump family members

http://theamericanreport.org/2017/07/20/obamas-surveillance-hammer-trump-worse-watergate/

EXCERPTS:

Montgomery alleges that the U.S. government wiretapped 17 Trump businesses including Trump Tower, Trump leasing programs, Donald Trump himself and various Trump family members. All were wiretapped under the Obama administration. There has been a wiretap on Trump for years, according to Montgomery.

Although the suit does not identify the surveillance system by name, audio recordings released in 2015 by United States District Court Judge G. Murray Snow in Maricopa County, Arizona identify a secret government surveillance system called “the Hammer,” allegedly used to spy on Trump, 159 judges including Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, and millions of other Americans.

Klayman reported that Montgomery indicated that the surveillance program also targeted late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who was found dead at an exclusive Texas hunting ranch in 2016.

According to an audio recording of Tim Blixseth, whose ex-wife worked with Montgomery at Blxware LLC of Bellevue, Washington, “the Hammer” was used to wiretap Donald Trump “a zillion times.”

A leaked CIA Information Operations Center document published in March 2017 WikiLeaks “Vault 7” dump identifies a CIA hacking tool called HAMR. A computer expert who worked for the military and a major government agency involved in defense who reviewed the leaked CIA document believes that the “Hammer” and “HAMR” refer to the same surveillance system.

“Montgomery laid out how persons like then-businessman Donald Trump were illegally spied upon by Clapper, Brennan, and the spy agencies of the Obama administration. He even claimed that these spy agencies had manipulated voting in Florida during the 2008 presidential election, illegal tampering that helped Obama win the White House.”

Montgomery told Rep. Devin Nunez, R-Calif., that he had the proof of wiretapping on Trump Tower. Nunez did nothing, according to Montgomery.

Montgomery states that Trump was wiretapped for years because, he alleges, the CIA feared Trump.

HAMR can “throw” browser exploits at iOS, Android, OSX and Linux hacking targets, according to the CIA Information Operations Center document. HAMR sends specified plugins from a collection of iOS plugins called “Wild Turkey” to targeted devices and installs (implants) them for surveillance operations.

HAMR appears to be a massive supercomputer system that was used to listen to phone calls not by tapping into telecommunication carrier switching stations and fiber optic cables, but instead by deploying or “throwing” malicious plugins at targeted computers and smartphones to collect the intercepts and then send the data back to the master supercomputer framework.

General Thomas McInerney, USAF (Ret.) called the situation revealed by Montgomery “worse than Watergate.” Lt. Col Anthony Shaffer, US Army Reserve (Ret.) on Fox Business also described surveillance against Trump as “worse than Watergate.” Likewise, USA Today published an opinion piece referring to President Obama’s surveillance scandal as “worse than Watergate” and which also suggested that former Obama officials could face criminal prosecution

https://soundcloud.com/theamericanreport

All the recorded conversations between CIA/NSA Whistleblower, Dennis Montgomery, William Blixseth

Notable: Clockfag marks Sudan on the clock

SUDAN

ON THE CLOCK

Notable: Vice President Mike Pence twat: Huge portions of the Midwest have been impacted by historic flooding

POTUS_Schedule Retweeted

Vice President Mike Pence

‏Verified account @VP

6m6 minutes ago

Huge portions of the Midwest have been impacted by historic flooding. Today I saw farms across Iowa & Nebraska that have been devastated for years to come. @POTUS & I are committed to getting those impacted the help they need!

https://twitter.com/VP/status/1116764803878596608

Notable: Jeremy Corbyn, has publicly opposed UK’s possible extradition of WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange to the US

Pursued for ‘exposing evidence of US atrocities’: Corbyn opposes extradition of Assange

Published time: 11 Apr, 2019 20:25 Edited time: 12 Apr, 2019 09:16

British Commie Corbyn feeling the heat?

Leader of the opposition Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, has publicly opposed UK’s possible extradition of WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange to the US, saying he exposed evidence of atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan.

https://www.rt.com/uk/456286-corbyn-opposes-assange-extradition/

Notable: U.S. Marines twat: Last night, CMC_MarineCorps and 18thSMMC saluted the remains of Staff Sgt. Christopher Slutman

Last night, @CMC_MarineCorps and @18thSMMC saluted the remains of Staff Sgt. Christopher Slutman, one of the three Marines killed in Parwan province, Afghanistan.

Til Valhalla, Marine.

twitter.com/USMC/status/1116757657593860096

Notable: CNN: There’s no evidence the Trump team was spied on

>>6151773

CNN: There’s no evidence the Trump team was spied on.

Also CNN: “British intelligence passed Trump associates' talks with Russian on to US counterparts”

#Idiots

twitter.com/dbongino/status/1116759370040135680

Notable: State Department has intervened to warn Poland over plannedexhumations on the site of a former ConcentrationCamp in Treblinka

@Polandin_com

The State Department has intervened to warn #Poland over planned #exhumations on the site of a former #ConcentrationCamp in #Treblinka

Notable: Anon links JA and Q. It has begun

So glad . . .

It has begun.

WWG1WGA

>>1916327

>JA in the news?

>It has begun.

Notable: GE to pay $1.5 billion U.S. civil fine over subprime mortgages

GE to pay $1.5 billion U.S. civil fine over subprime mortgages

(Reuters) - General Electric Co will pay a $1.5 billion civil fine to resolve a long-running U.S. investigation into defective subprime mortgages offered by its former WMC Mortgage unit prior to the 2008 global financial crisis.

The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday said the accord resolves claims that GE concealed the poor quality of the loans and WMC’s lax fraud controls when packaging the loans into residential mortgage-backed securities sold to investors.

WMC was acquired by GE’s finance unit General Electric Capital Corp in 2004, and originated more than $65 billion of mortgage loans in the next three years.

GE had in January announced an agreement in principle for Friday’s settlement, and had previously set aside $1.5 billion for the accord. The Boston-based company did not admit wrongdoing in agreeing to settle.

“This is another step in our ongoing efforts to de-risk GE Capital,” GE said in a statement. “This agreement represents a significant part of the total legacy exposure associated with WMC and we are pleased to put this matter behind us.”

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ge-settlement/ge-to-pay-1-5-billion-u-s-civil-fine-over-subprime-mortgages-idUSKCN1RO233

Notable: >>6151787 Anons dig on Ray Chandler WH visitor logs 2009-2014

>>6151670

>>6151681

First, TYB!

Then, since you all asked, here is Chandler’s White House Visitor Logs with Sauce, and a Kissinger thrown in for free.

Notable: Georgia Ethics Chief to Subpoena Stacey Abrams’ Gubernatorial Campaign

I hope they drag every piece of dirt out on her.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/12/georgia-ethics-chief-to-subpoena-stacey-abrams-gubernatorial-campaign/#

Notable: Mark Meadows twat: Dems trying to shift the debate

https://twitter.com/RepMarkMeadows/status/1116752420590301185

Notable: >>6151509 Mike Pompeo Wants China to Join Russia in START Nuclear Treaty

Carnegie Nuclear Policy @carnegienpp

Mike Pompeo Wants China to Join Russia in START Nuclear Treaty via @japantimes

https://twitter.com/carnegienpp/status/1116751606324834304

Notable: Republicans Oversight Committee twat: review security clearance practice in Obama Admin

https://twitter.com/GOPoversight/status/1116741115800059904

Notable: DJT twat on dumping illegals in sanctuary cities

>>6151283

He should do exactly that until the law is changed.

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1116746157043126273

Notable: Statement from POTUS on (ICC) rejected request to investigate American military and intelligence professionals who served in Afghanistan

Statement from the President

LAW & JUSTICE

Issued on: April 12, 2019

menuALL NEWS

Today, the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced its unanimous rejection of a request to investigate American military and intelligence professionals who served in Afghanistan. This is a major international victory, not only for these patriots, but for the rule of law. We welcome this decision and reiterate our position that the United States holds American citizens to the highest legal and ethical standards. Since the creation of the ICC, the United States has consistently declined to join the court because of its broad, unaccountable prosecutorial powers; the threat it poses to American national sovereignty; and other deficiencies that render it illegitimate. Any attempt to target American, Israeli, or allied personnel for prosecution will be met with a swift and vigorous response.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-from-the-president-8/

Notable: AOC Defends Omar, Tells SEAL Crenshaw “Why Don’t You Go Do Something” About Domestic Terrorists

AOC Defends Omar, Tells SEAL Crenshaw “Why Don’t You Go Do Something” About Domestic Terrorists

bongino.com/aoc-defends-omar-tells-seal-crenshaw-why-dont-you-go-do-something-about-domestic-terrorists/

twitter.com/seanhannity/status/1116733186413821959

Notable: ForAmerica twat: Ilhan Omar - What kind of sick monster would find comedy…

What kind of sick monster would find comedy in the words Al-Qaeda and Hezbollah and compare those two terrorist organizations to America and the U.S. Army?

Rep. Ilhan Omar. That’s who.

twitter.com/ForAmerica/status/1116498204835631104

Notable: Trump Jr. twat: CNN covering owls instead of real news.

Are you fags seeing this? Don jr twat. cnn covering owls instead of real news.

OWLS

Notable: Giuliani twat: Rep. Ilhan Omar Must Be Denounced for Outrageous 9/11 Comments

Rep. Ilhan Omar Must Be Denounced for Outrageous 9/11 Comments

twitter.com/RudyGiuliani/status/1116694099959197696

www.newsmax.com/bernardkerik/ilhan-omar-september-eleventh-minnesota/2019/04/10/id/911128/

Notable: US DoD twat w/ CAP: practice makes perfect

Practice makes perfect!

twitter.com/DeptofDefense/status/1116642112697774080

Notable: >>6151173 New DJT twat

New DJT

Notable: Former CNN Inside Africa host dies after a collapse

https://twitter.com/MirrorBreaking_/status/1116739113942749184

Notable: Ex-Muslim: “Swedes will lose Sweden in 50 years”

Bet it won't take that long

Ex-Muslim: “Swedes will lose Sweden in 50 years”

Mona Walter is a Somali woman who came to Sweden in the 90’s. In Somalia, she had never been religious, but in Sweden she was more or less forced to go to the mosque and wear a hijab.

After a couple of years she rebelled, left Islam and became an atheist. Eventually she came to believe in Jesus and converted to Christianity.

“For many years I have tried to get the Swedes to understand what the Muslim goal is – to take over your country. The first thing they will do is demand sharia courts, just like in the UK”, she says.

But the mainstream media does not want to listen to Mona Walter. They call her controversial and most Swedes turn away from her message, which they perceive as too frightening, according to the news blog Ingrid and Maria.

“Swedes are so convinced that Swedish laws will always apply in their country. But ask any Englishman if he 30 years ago would have believed that Britain would have legal sharia courts in 2019. No one would have thought it possible.”

https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/04/ex-muslim-swedes-will-lose-sweden-in-50-years/

Notable: New Jersey gives law students taxpayer money to represent illegal immigrants

New Jersey gives law students taxpayer money to represent illegal immigrants

Law school clinics at Seton Hall University and Rutgers University have each received $125,000 in taxpayer money for their students to represent illegal immigrants in court. The $250,000 in funds come from a larger grant from the New Jersey Department of the Treasury, totaling $2.1 million, which will fund legal representation for New Jersey residents with immigration-related troubles, according to a news release. This money could be better spent helping poor citizens with legal troubles as opposed to noncitizens who are illegally in the country. Taxpayers are funding the aid of those who are actively breaking the law.

A Rutgers Law announcement about the program said the “funding from the Governor is an important step in ensuring that all of New Jersey’s detained immigrants get the representation they deserve. We hope this is only the beginning.” Students can also receive class credit for doing pro bono work for detained immigrants facing deportation or seeking asylum.

Hans von Spakovsky, a legal expert at the Heritage Foundation, criticized New Jersey’s priorities. “There are poor citizens in the state of New Jersey who can not afford legal representation in all kinds of everyday matters, from criminal cases to housing disputes, to child welfare issues,” he told Campus Reform. “Given the limited amount of money that the state provides, you would think that their number one priority ought to be helping citizens before they help illegal aliens.”

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/red-alert-politics/new-jersey-gives-law-students-taxpayer-money-to-represent-illegal-immigrants

Notable: Georgetown University students vote to increase their tuition to pay slavery reparations

Georgetown University students vote to increase their tuition to pay slavery reparations

Georgetown University students overwhelmingly voted to increase their tuition to pay reparations to the descendants of slaves once owned by the school. The move comes as reparations are increasingly being discussed on the campaign trail for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. The Georgetown University Student Association held the referendum this week, with students supporting the measure by a two-to-one margin. The fee would increase tuition at the nation's oldest Catholic university by nearly $28 per semester for every student. The money would go into a fund for descendants of the 272 slaves the Jesuits sold in 1838 to keep the deeply indebted university open. The vote is not binding, however. University leadership will make the final decision on whether to implement a mandatory fee for reparations.

"There are many approaches that enable our community to respond to the legacies of slavery," Todd Olson, vice president for student affairs, said in a statement. "This student referendum provides valuable insight into student perspectives and will help guide our continued engagement with students, faculty and staff, members of the Descendant community, and the Society of Jesus." Reparations have become a topic of debate in the race for the Democratic nomination for president. At least four White House hopefuls — Obama-era housing secretary Julián Castro, California Sen. Kamala Harris, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke — support payments to descendants of slaves. New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker has ripped into his opponents for not doing enough to make reparations a reality. Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders disagrees with the idea, however, saying that he would rather focus on the economic inequality that puts African Americans at a disadvantage.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/georgetown-university-students-vote-to-increase-their-tuition-to-pay-slavery-reparations

Notable: Iraqi special forces begin new operation to drive ISIS out northern mountain range

Iraqi special forces begin new operation to drive ISIS out northern mountain range

BEIRUT, LEBANON (12:30 P.M.) – The Iraqi counter-terrorism forces launched a new operation on Thursday that targeted the remaining Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS/Daesh) terrorists from a mountain range in northern Iraq.

According to a report from Baghdad, the counter-terrorism forces began their operation by storming the Islamic State’s hideouts in the Hamrin Hills.

The report said that the Iraqi counter-terrorism forces have already killed a dozen Islamic State terrorists, while also destroying a number of hideouts and trenches.

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/iraqi-special-forces-begin-new-operation-to-drive-isis-out-northern-mountain-range/

Notable: Bill Mitchell twat 2: The game plan never changes

https://twitter.com/mitchellvii/status/1116703259845111808

Notable: Chevron Corp on Friday said it will buy Anadarko Petroleum Corp for $33 billion in cash and stock

Chevron to buy Anadarko for $33 billion in shale, LNG push

(big deal for the dollar amount)

(Reuters) - Chevron Corp on Friday said it will buy Anadarko Petroleum Corp for $33 billion in cash and stock as the company doubles down on its bet on U.S. shale oil and gas production, where the surge in output has made the United States the world’s largest energy producer.

With oil prices surging this year, Chevron and larger rival Exxon Mobil Corp have been increasing investment in the Permian basin in West Texas, the most prolific shale oil field in the country.

Their efforts coincide with a pullback by the smaller companies that revolutionized the industry through shale drilling, who have had to curtail spending due to investor dissatisfaction with weak returns.

The deal is the oil industry’s largest since Royal Dutch Shell bought BG Group in 2016, and it sparked speculation that other shale producers are in play. Shares of Apache Corp, which also has extensive acreage in the Permian Basin, jumped 7 percent in premarket trading, while Pioneer Natural Resources Co rose 6 percent.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-anadarko-petrol-m-a-chevron/chevron-to-buy-anadarko-for-33-billion-in-shale-lng-push-idUSKCN1RO143

Notable: Indonesia lifts tsunami warning after powerful 6.8 quake hits off Sulawesi island

Indonesia lifts tsunami warning after powerful 6.8 quake hits off Sulawesi island

Indonesia has lifted a tsunami warning that was issued earlier on Friday after a powerful 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Sulawesi island.

A spokesman for Indonesia's Geophysical Agency announced the warning after the quake hit 280 km (174 miles) south of the province of Gorontalo. It was in place for approximately 40 minutes.

It struck at a depth of 43 km (27 miles), according to the United States Geological Survey. The warning was issued for coastal communities in the Morowali district.

There were no reports of damage or casualties but the USGS warned that considerable damage was possible in poorly built or badly designed structures

https://www.rt.com/news/456333-tsunami-warning-issued-indonesia/

Notable: NEW DJT twat w/ CAP: …This is a really big story, but the Fake News New York Times didn’t even put it on page one…

NEW DJT tweet

'''President Obama’s top White House lawyer, Gregory B. Craig, was indicted yesterday on very serious charges. This is a really big story, but the Fake News New York Times didn’t even put it on page one, rather page 16. @washingtonpost not much better, “tiny” page one. Corrupt News!

Notable: Filed under WTF: Rep Omar twats out: What if G. Bush was a muslim?

https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1116683819476750337

Notable: >>6150551 Ties of Jeb Bush to Dozier school in FLA?

Jeb Bush knew what was going on at the Dozier school!!!!!

https://books.google.com/books?id=_SrAVrFD8WsC&pg=PA420&lpg=PA420&dq=florida#v=onepage&q=florida&f=false

Notable: U.S. Border Patrol Assists with Foreign Sex Trafficking in South Carolina

http://shorenewsnetwork.com/2019/04/12/u-s-border-patrol-assists-with-foreign-sex-trafficking-in-south-carolina/

Notable: Trump's approval rating: 55% overall, 58% economy

it would be MASSIVELY HIGHER if he didn’t have a harassing fake media

Notable: Anon connects Mar 6 JA indictment, Watch the Water & USAF plane callsign MOVEQ45

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Notable: Georgetown students vote for $27 slavery reparations fee at a univ. that has received $1.4bil from the Feds

>>6149076 Have some sauce with that:

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/georgetown-tests-case-reparations-longstanding-political-debate-unfolds/story?id=62316394

Looks like the skulls full of mush voted overwhelmingly for that charge to be imposed. In addition to the $1.4 Billion dollars the university has rec'd from the USG.

https://www.usaspending.gov/#/keyword_search/%22georgetown%20university%22

Notable: JA on the Q clock

>>6149069

<< LOOK

Notable: WOW: Trump Takes Hammer To Big Government, Will ELIMINATE A Major Federal Department

WOW: Trump Takes Hammer To Big Government, Will ELIMINATE A Major Federal Department

President Donald Trump has been railing against big government for several years and has been trying to reduce the size of it since taking office two years ago.

According to The Hill, Trump is trying to do what has not been done since World War II: eliminate a federal agency.

The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the Office of Personnel Management and will shift its responsibilities to other various departments.

Claim Your FREE ‘Make America Great Again” Hat While Supplies Last

Here’s more from The Hill:

If Trump’s administration is successful, the OPM would be the first federal department eliminated since World War II.

According to the Post, the OPM’s responsibilities would be shifted to three other departments.

Trump’s announcement on the agency is reportedly likely to occur over the summer and OPM employees were briefed on the matter at a meeting in March.

According to the Post, the administration views the agency as an example of inefficient, slow-moving government.

“Reached for comment, a White House spokesperson referred The Hill to previous proposals calling for the reorganization of OPM.

“President Trump is committed to reforming the federal government, making it more efficient, effective, and accountable for hardworking American taxpayers,” the spokesperson added.

“It’s a big, exemplary step,” Margaret Weichert, deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget and acting OPM director, told the Post in an interview.

She characterized the agency created to oversee the civil service in 1978 as “fundamentally not set up for success, structurally.”

Here’s more on the steps that the White House has taken so far:

The White House is attempting to dismantle the agency in several stages, with some steps beginning now and other changes delayed pending congressional approval.

But by starting the process, the administration hopes to claim a win on a major government reorganization plan that has languished without buy-in from Congress.

The plan envisions a smaller, more consolidated government in line with the president’s campaign promise to “cut so much your head will spin.” Wiping out the federal personnel agency could be Exhibit A as Trump’s reelection campaign assembles a list of victories to take to voters, from deregulation and tax cuts to trade tariffs.

The White House is taking steps now to parcel out many of the other responsibilities by the fall. The agency’s massive background investigation operation will migrate first to the Defense Department. The General Services Administration, the federal real estate agency, will absorb OPM’s human resources role, including training, pay and hiring, workforce planning, and the inspector general’s office.

The Office of Management and Budget would take over high-level policies governing federal employees, a plan that advocates and unions are decrying as a backdoor ploy to politicize the civil service by installing political appointees close to the White House.

This would certainly be a huge move and something that many Americans would applaud.

https://ilovemyfreedom.org/wow-trump-takes-hammer-to-big-government-will-eliminate-a-major-federal-department/

Notable: Navy drops criminal charges against officers involved in 2017 USS Fitzgerald collision that killed 7

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-navy-uss-fitzgerald-collision-20190411-vrrhdvw4rzbjxoquuqt2alcswe-story.html?outputType=amp

Notable: Safest way of getting Assange out of the embassy

Correction to my Notable from bread #7858 - Safest way of getting Assange out of the embassy https://8ch.net/qresearch/res/6144498.html#6145194

I posited in post >>6145194 (PB) that Assange appeared to carried out in a sitting position hammock fashioned from perhaps a blanket.

Another video with a wider shot dispelled this assumption https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWxGWOzKzHIby by clearly showing Assange had been picked up and carried out, front down and head first. The attached screengrab clearly shows his lower body is not visible below his head and chest area as it would be, if he were being carried in a sitting position.

In the other screengrab, his right leg and right boot are clearly visible and extended out behind him.

This shows why we should look at more than one source of even the same video, as the video I had initially viewed and commented on had been zoomed in on, cutting off the boots in the shot.

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Notable: Pentagon announces the wall to be finished Oct 2020 (Western Journal)

BAKER NOTABLE AF

Pentagon Announcement May Have Just Delivered 2020 to Trump: Wall Construction To Be Finished Oct 2020

Massive Pentagon Decision May Have Just Handed Trump 2020

Months after President Donald Trump declared a national emergency for the border crisis, progress is finally being made. The Department of Defense authorized nearly $1 billion for Trump’s campaign-promised border wall.

The Pentagon announced on Tuesday that two different companies have been given $976 million in contracts to start building portions of the border wall, CNN reported.

SLSCO Ltd., a company based in Texas, has been given a $789 million contract to build a wall in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, and Barnard Construction Company, based in Montana, has been given a $187 million contract for work in Yuma, Arizona.

Department of Defense spokesman Lt. Col. Jamie Davis said that the wall in the El Paso border sector in Santa Teresa would include a “30-foot bollard fencing and a five-foot anti-climb plate.”

The Yuma sector project includes an “18-foot bollard fencing and a five-foot anti-climb plate.”

These projects are both expected to be completed by October 2020, one month before the presidential election.

These are the first funds awarded for the border wall since Trump announced a national emergency for the border crisis in February.

Do you think this will help Trump in 2020?

The Pentagon announced its decision to transfer military funds for border wall construction last month before finally awarding the funds on Tuesday.

As expected, Democrats were absolutely furious.

In a media release published on March 25, a number of Senate Democrats demanded answers from acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan.

“We strongly object to both the substance of the funding transfer, and to the Department implementing the transfer without seeking the approval of the congressional defense committees and in violation of provisions in the defense appropriation itself,” the letter read.

It’s important to note that the Pentagon doesn’t need approval from Congress before transferring funds.

But it’s understandable why Democrats would be upset — the Department of Defense is practically handing Trump the 2020 election.

Trump supporters voted for him with the expectation that he would do something to stop the border crisis, but he has been somewhat ineffective as lawmakers have refused to cooperate.

Now that portions of the wall are finally being built, Trump’s base will be energized and some disillusioned conservatives might be more willing to throw their support behind Trump once again.

https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/pentagon-announcement-may-just-delivered-2020-trump-wall-construction-finished-oct-2020/

Notable: Time of Reckoning for Coup Plotters Has Arrived!

Time of Reckoning for Coup Plotters Has Arrived!

https://larouchepub.com/other/editorials/2019/4613-mueller_report_no_collusion_ti.html

Notable: QAnon follower in FL running unopposed for House seat (Salon.com)

"Florida QAnon believer running unopposed in GOP primary for House seat"

Florida QAnon believer running unopposed in GOP primary for House seat

QAnon believer running against Rep. Al Lawson in north Florida says he plans to "decapitate the swamp creatures"

A Florida bookseller appears to be the first QAnon follower to run for Congress – and is currently the only Republican seeking to challenge incumbent Rep. Al Lawson, a Democrat.

Matthew Lusk is the first Republican to declare his candidacy in Florida’s 5th congressional district, Florida Politics reported. That may be because Republicans believe they have no chance: The district stretches from Orlando to Jacksonville in an awkward curlicue through central and northern Florida, and was evidently engineered to have a majority African American population. Lawson was elected last November with 66.8 percent of the vote.

“I belong to no secret societies or clubs, Q is one of my issues because it’s definitely a leak from high places,” Lusk told the outlet. “I follow Q, but I don’t know who or what Q is.”

QAnon, a bizarre pro-Trump conspiracy theory born out of anonymous postings on the far-right forum 4chan, posits that a high-level government insider who goes by “Q” is leaking clues to Trump supporters about what is really going on in the deep state. The conspiracy theory involves outlandish claims that Hillary Clinton and other high-profile Democrats are part of a child sex trafficking ring that Trump is secretly working to bring down. A best-selling book about QAnon “claims that Democrats murder and eat children and that the government created AIDS, polio and Lyme disease” and that “the world is run by a Satanic cabal led by Hillary Clinton,” MarketWatch reported.

Lusk did not get into details about his specific beliefs but said his “knowledge of the evil power players” is what sparked his interest in mounting a congressional bid.

“I pray over making wise decisions and am taking the sword of truth to D.C. to decapitate the swamp creatures, and I’ll chase off the RINOS while I’m there,” Lusk told Florida Politics. “There is plenty of danger and opportunity at the State level, but the State will be toast if Federal problems and mega-Crime syndicates are not brought to justice soon.”

Lusk insisted to The Daily Beast that he is not a “brainwashed cult member” but wrote online that “Q” has a “very articulate screening of past events, a very articulate screening of present conditions, and a somewhat prophetic divination of where the political and geopolitical ball will be bouncing next.”

“Q” is even listed as one of the issues on his campaign website, though the page simply says, “Who is…………..Q.”

Lusk told The Daily Beast that he would not use QAnon to guide his actions as a lawmaker unless “criminal leaks or seditious activity” revealed in the clues “warranted an investigation.”

QAnon is far from the only conspiracy theory Lusk subscribes to. The front page of his campaign website says he is concerned he will be “Arkancided,” a reference to the decades-long conspiracy theory that the Clintons had their Arkansas associates murdered.

Lusk has put about $2,000 into his campaign. He told the outlet he is self-funding until he gets a “full understanding of the law.”

While Lusk appears to be the first open QAnon follower to run for Congress, several elected officials have pushed QAnon conspiracy theories publicly.

South Carolina state Rep. Lin Bennett has posted about QAnon for months on her Facebook page. “They’re legit,” she wrote of Q. “And they haven’t been wrong.”

In December, Pam Patterson, a city councilwoman in San Juan Capistrano, California, endorsed Q in her farewell address on the council floor.

“To quote Q, number 2436, for far too long, we have been silent and allowed our bands of strength that we once formed to defend freedom and liberty to deteriorate. We became divided. We became weak. We elected traitors to govern us,” Paterson said. “Where we go one, we go all. Q.”

Earlier this year, a Montana judge named Michael Swingley used his official government email account to scold a reporter for being critical of the QAnon conspiracy theory.

“Whether Q is real or otherwise, there is a movement started by the hypothesis of a Q and somebody behind the scenes standing up for the average American citizen,” Swingley wrote to Washington Post reporter Avi Selk. “Patriots are uniting against people just like you. Your world of fake news and liberal agendas that give away our country to foreigners and protect the Clintons and Obamas is coming to an end. Wait for it……….. you pathetic, snobby ass.”

https://www.salon.com/2019/04/11/florida-qanon-believer-running-unopposed-in-gop-primary-for-house-seat/

Notable: Kamala Harris: ‘I Am a Gun Owner… for Personal Safety’

Wow what a hippocratic bitch!!

((THEY))) ARE SCARED………..

Kamala Harris: ‘I Am a Gun Owner… for Personal Safety’

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), a 2020 contender, told reporters on Thursday she owns a gun. “I am a gun owner, and I own a gun for probably the reason a lot of people do—for personal safety,” she said, according to CNN. “I was a career prosecutor.” A campaign aide told the network that Harris owns a handgun, which she purchased years ago and she keeps locked away. Harris went onto say there could be a middle ground struck between gun access and gun safety. “We are being offered a false choice… You’re either in favor of the Second Amendment or you want to take everyone’s guns away,” she said. “It’s a false choice that is born out of a lack of courage from leaders who must recognize and agree that there are some practical solutions to what is a clear problem in our country.” Harris reportedly made the disclosure to reporters shortly after meeting with supporters in Iowa, including members of a grassroots movement for gun control. “Part of the practical solution is to agree that we need smart gun safety laws,” Harris told the press. “Period.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/kamala-harris-i-am-a-gun-owner-for-personal-safety

Notable: Phoenix Police: 4 Homeland Security agents taken to the hospital following shooting in Ahwatukee AZ

Phoenix Police: 4 Homeland Security agents taken to the hospital following shooting in Ahwatukee AZ

Federal agents fatally shot a woman while serving an arrest warrant for human smuggling Thursday near Ahwatukee, according to authorities.

Another person also was shot and wounded, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.

Three other people also were in a vehicle with them when the shooting occurred, Phoenix police said.

Four agents also were taken to a hospital with injuries, though they were not considered life-threatening.

Phoenix police are investigating the shooting that involved Homeland Security Investigations agents, according to police officials.

HSI agents attempted to stop a vehicle to make an arrest when gunfire was exchanged, said Sgt. Tommy Thompson of the Phoenix Police Department.

There were five people in the suspect vehicle. One, an adult female, was pronounced dead at the scene, Thompson said.

The other four individuals were transported to a local hospital, and their injuries are not believed to be life-threatening, Thompson said.

Police did not provide further details on their injuries.

ICE issued the following statement,which confirmed that two people were shot:

“On April 11, 2019, HSI special agents discharged their firearms, striking two suspects while executing a federal felony arrest warrant connected to human smuggling in Ahwatukee, Arizona. The Phoenix Police Department is the lead agency investigating the incident." according to a statement from Yasmeen Pitts O'Keefe, ICE Public Affairs officer.

"In accordance with agency protocol, ICE’s Office of Professional Responsibility is reviewing the incident. The agency will not comment further while this review remains ongoing,” the statement said.

ICE officials did not identify the names on the warrants or the two people shot by agents.

Four Homeland Security special agents were transported to a local hospital for non-life threatening medical evaluation. Further details were not made available.

Agency officials would only say the agents were met with a threat that prompted the agents to respond by firing weapons.

Phoenix police officers responded around 10 a.m. to the area near 48th and Kiowa streets, between Warner and Elliot roads.

According to Thompson, Phoenix officers were not involved in the human smuggling investigation or the shooting.

Two or three vehicles were involved in an apparent crash on 48th Street. One of the vehicle's windows appeared to have been shot out.

A vehicle also appeared to have run into a wall in the neighborhood and knocked down a tree.

Nick Dalton, a resident in the neighborhood, said he was in his garage when a large number of gunshots rang out.

"The rounds just kept going and going and going," Dalton said.

Federal agents shot two people while serving an arrest warrant for human smuggling Thursday near Ahwatukee, according to authorities. Nathan J. Fish, The Republic | azcentral.com

Dalton and his mother, Leslie Dalton, said they walked out of their home when the gunfire stopped and saw a body lying in the middle of the street.

The Daltons said they saw three bodies, one of them wearing a bulletproof vest, being taken away in ambulances.

"I was very afraid," said Leslie Dalton. "It's very disturbing hearing gunshots."

Nick Dalton said he ducked down while in the garage when the gunfire erupted.

"It sounded like we were in a war zone," he said.

By far, it was the last thing you would expect to happen, he added.

Sonja Redmon, another resident of the neighborhood, heard the shootout and thought that fireworks and explosives were going off.

"I immediately started praying," Redmon said. "I was saying, 'You know, Lord, forgive me and try to keep everybody safe.'"

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/ahwatukee-breaking/2019/04/11/phoenix-police-investigate-reported-shooting-involving-federal-agents-ahwatukee/3437038002/ …"

Notable: McConnell tells 2020 to run "independent" campaigns (thanks a lot, Mitch)

BAKER NOTABLE

Mitch McConnell tells 2020 Republicans to run 'independent' of Donald Trump

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Republican senators running for re-election next year should not couple their messaging to President Trump but rather run “independent” campaigns built around how they’ve helped their states.

The Kentucky Republican, who is himself up for re-election, said senators’ races are big enough that they can escape the gravity of the presidential race and establish themselves on their own.

Mr. McConnell also said Republicans must — and can — reverse disastrous losses in the suburbs that cost them their House majority in November’s elections.

“There’s no good reason for your typical suburban resident to be frightened by this Republican Senate,” he told reporters in a briefing on policy and politics as the 100-day mark of the new Congress approaches.

He said Democrats have helped the GOP with its case by running so far to the left on issues such as the Green New Deal, a sweeping environmental and social policy overhaul, and “Medicare for All,” a government-sponsored universal health care plan.

Republican senators can tell voters they’ll guard against that sort of change, he said.

“From a Senate point of view I’m going to be arguing, and I’m encouraging my colleagues to argue, that we’re the firewall against socialism in this country,” Mr. McConnell said.

Republicans hold 53 seats in the Senate right now, and have 21 of those seats up in 2020. Democrats are defending 12 seats.

The most endangered seat is probably that of Sen. Doug Jones, an Alabama Democrat who lucked into his victory in a special election in 2017 after a nasty GOP primary left Republicans with flawed nominee Roy Moore. Among other hurdles, Mr. Moore faces accusations that as a lawyer in his 30s he dated teen girls.

Among the GOP’s toughest races are Sens. Cory Gardner in Colorado, Martha McSally in Arizona, Thom Tillis in North Carolina and David Perdue in Georgia.

Democrats said those lawmakers will struggle to walk a line between backing Mr. Trump and building bipartisan accomplishments.

Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat, said Republicans haven’t been able to find the right balance.

“When President Trump says jump, Leader McConnell and the Republicans just say how high,” Mr. Schumer said.

Mr. McConnell said Republicans should stress their independence.

“My advice to all of our people — take Gardner, and McSally, maybe Tillis and maybe Perdue — paint you’re own picture. What difference has your service made? And our races are big enough that where you can make a case independent of whatever else is going on,” he said.

“I think we’re planning on running independent campaigns, and if they take my advice I think the best argument for us is they are fundamentally trying to change America into something it’s never been, and if you want to make sure that doesn’t happen, go out and elect a Senate Republican majority,” Mr. McConnell said.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/apr/11/mitch-mcconnell-tells-2020-republicans-run-indepen/

Notable: RR defends Barr "He's being as forthcoming as he can"

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Rod Rosenstein: “He’s (AG Barr) being as forthcoming as he can, and so this notion that he’s trying to mislead people, I think is just completely BIZARRE!” ⁦

Outgoing Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on Thursday defended Attorney General William Barr against allegations that he is misleading Congress and the public about the special counsel’s Russia report.

“He’s being as forthcoming as he can, and so this notion that he’s trying to mislead people, I think is just completely bizarre,” Rosenstein said in a rare interview with The Wall Street Journal.

Democrats have accused Barr of releasing misleading information about special counsel Robert Mueller’s findings from his 22-month investigation, which focused on possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, as well as whether President Trump tried to obstruct the probe.

Barr sent a letter to Congress on March 24 saying that Mueller was unable to establish that collusion occurred. On the obstruction matter, Barr said that Mueller declined to make a decision one way or the other on whether to recommend a case against Trump.

U.S. Attorney General William Barr testifies on the Justice Department’s budget proposal before a House Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., April 9, 2019. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein

Barr said that he conferred with Rosenstein and Justice Department lawyers and decided against pursuing a case. Barr said that since there was no allegation of conspiracy, Trump had no underlying crime to conceal by obstruction. (RELATED: Barr: ‘I Think Spying Did Occur’ On The Trump Campaign)

Democrats heightened their criticism last week after The New York Times reported that members of Mueller’s team were frustrated that Barr had misrepresented Mueller’s findings. The anonymous sources claimed that there was a stronger case to be made on obstruction than Barr’s letter let on.

But Rosenstein, who appointed Mueller as special counsel on May 17, 2017 and oversaw the probe, said that Barr revealed as much information as he could. He also defended the review process taking place ahead of the release of the report. Barr said on Tuesday that he expects to give a redacted version of Mueller’s report to Congress “within a week.”

The Justice Department, in coordination with Mueller’s team, is reviewing the report to decide which grand jury and classified information to redact.

“It would be one thing if you put out a letter and said, ‘I’m not going to give you the report,'” Rosenstein told The Journal.

“What he said is, ‘Look, it’s going to take a while to process the report. In the meantime, people really want to know what’s in it. I’m going to give you the top-line conclusions.’ That’s all he was trying to do.”

https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/11/rod-rosenstein-defends-william-barr/